Cleveland Museum of Art - Selections From The Permanent Collection

Selections From The Permanent Collection

In June 2004, the museum acquired an ancient bronze sculpture of Apollo Sauroktonos, believed to be an original work by Praxiteles of Athens. Because the work has a contested provenance, the museum continues to study the dating and attribution of the sculpture. In 2011, Michael Bennet, the Greek and Roman arts curator, announced that he had dated the piece to 350 B.C. to 250 B.C.

The museum is especially strong in the field of Asian art, possessing one of the best collections in the U.S.

In 2008, the United States Postal Service selected the Cleveland Museum's famed Botticelli painting entitled Virgin and Child with the Young John the Baptist as the Christmas stamp for that year.

  • Caravaggio, The Crucifixion of Saint Andrew, 1607.

  • Frans Hals Portrait of Tieleman Roosterman, 1634.

  • Francisco de Zurbarán Christ and the Virgin in the House at Nazareth, 1631–1640.

  • Nicolas Poussin, Holy Family on the Steps, 1648.

  • Jean-Baptiste Oudry, A Hare and a Leg of Lamb, 1742.

  • Jacques Louis David, Cupid and Psyche, 1817.

  • J.M.W. Turner, The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons, 1835.

  • William Sidney Mount, The Power of Music, 1847.

  • Frederic Edwin Church, Twilight in the Wilderness, 1860.

  • Berthe Morisot, Reading, 1873

  • Claude Monet, The Red Kerchief: Portrait of Mrs. Monet, 1868-1878.

  • Auguste Rodin, The Thinker, 1880-1881 (showing damage from the 1970 pipe bomb).

  • Edgar Degas, Freize of Dancers, 1895.

  • Albert Pinkham Ryder, The Race Track (Death on a Pale Horse), 1896-1908.

  • Henri Rousseau, Fight Between a Tiger and a Buffalo, 1908

  • Walker Evans, Allie Mae Burroughs, Wife of a Cotton Sharecropper, Hale County, Alabama, 1936.

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