Art, literature & history
Olive Trees of the Riviera
c. 1875
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- etching
- Collection no.
- 1919.994
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Samuel Colman. Olive Trees of the Riviera. Samuel Colman; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Gift of George A. Goddard. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
Olive Trees of the Riviera — Samuel Colman. c. 1875.
Medium: etching. Dimensions: .
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Like Otto Bacher and Joseph Pennell (both also in thisexhibition), Colman was an avid traveler and madeextensive European tours in 1860 and 1871. He recordedhis peripatetic life in etchings, watercolors, and paintings.In this landscape and architectural vignette of southern France, Colman described an overgrown aqueduct amongst gnarled olive trees. Two figures gaze toward thepicturesque vision of a sailboat on the sunlit Riviera.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.