In the Alps
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (British, 1821–1906)
c. 1847–1906
Medium
watercolor
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of James Parmelee
Accession Number
1940.549
Tags
male
About this artwork
Brabazon, the son of landed gentry, was a self-taught amateur who dedicated himself to watercolor. He lived on his family’s estates in Sussex and made annual trips to the Continent, particularly the Swiss Alps and the Mediterranean. Brabazon was a friend of John Ruskin (also in this gallery), and the two artists traveled and painted together in northern France in 1880. During the last decades of the 19th century, Brabazon’s strikingly modern watercolors, characterized by mere suggestions of moun...