Crémieu, Seen from Chaillonnette

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Artist: François-Auguste Ravier (French, 1814–1895)
Date: c. 1867–1872
Medium: oil on wood panel
Dimensions: unframed: height 0.27 m, width 0.348 m
Origin: France, 19th century
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Holding institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Palette: Charred Umber · Black family · #25170F · 30%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #8E7350 · 29%

Raw Walnut · Brown family · #694823 · 15%

Charred Umber · Black family · #202012 · 8%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #4D311B · 7%

Sooted Timber · Brown family · #5A2111 · 4%

Carbon Ground · Black family · #162419 · 3%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #B99466 · 2%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #986F17 · 1%

Press Black · Black family · #1E1011 · <1%

Granite Face · Gray family · #756F65 · <1%

Oxidized Bronze · Green family · #717862 · <1%

Midnight Indigo · Black family · #1C1A20 · <1%

Iron Rosette · Red family · #8B2315 · <1%

Granite Face · Gray family · #64766F · <1%

Burnt Sienna Wall · Orange family · #BD431E · <1%

Clay Tablet · Brown family · #846865 · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #060302 · <1%

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Image provider: cleveland-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Gift of Mme. Félix Thiollier

9 tags

Landscapes Both · 99%

The image clearly depicts an outdoor landscape with vegetation, sky, distant buildings, and a low horizon; the title identifies the depicted view as Crémieu seen from Chaillonnette.

Earth Tones Visual · 97%

The painting is dominated by subdued browns, rusts, ochers, dark greens, and other earthen hues.
Dark Colors Visual · 94%

Large areas of the foreground and tree are rendered in very dark brown, green, and near-black passages, creating a strongly shadowed lower register.
Rough Visual · 90%

The surface appears visibly uneven and heavily worked, particularly in the foreground vegetation and around the tree trunk.

Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The catalog identifies the object as a painting executed in oil on wood panel.
Oil on Panel Metadata · 100%

The catalog explicitly specifies the support as a wood panel and the medium as oil.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 98%

Broad, clearly visible strokes and irregularly worked passages animate the sky, tree, buildings, and foreground.

19th Century Art Metadata · 99%

The catalog dates the work to c. 1867–1872 and identifies it as a 19th-century work.

French Art Metadata · 99%

The Cleveland Museum of Art records the place of origin as France, 19th century, and identifies the artist as French.

François-Auguste Ravier (French, 1814–1895). Crémieu, Seen from Chaillonnette. Cleveland Museum of Art.