# Landscape with Rider on White Horse

**Jean Achille Benouville** (French, 1815–1891)  
1846  
oil on canvas  
Unframed: 35.5 x 53.3 cm (14 x 21 in.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010.19. [The museum's record](https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.19).

## About this work

The darkly shaded trees and turbulent sky introduce a romantic sentiment into this classical or ideal landscape in which a lone rider on horseback gallops through a deep space. The composition is organized into three clearly defined zones that recede from the path in the foreground, to the lake or river in the middle ground, to the distant rocky mountain and sea.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

Jean Achille Benouville painted this in 1846, aged 31. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

### How it was made

- **Oil paint.** Pigment ground in a drying oil, usually linseed. It dries slowly, so painters could blend on the canvas, build up thin translucent glazes, and rework a picture over weeks. Canvas replaced wooden panels in the 1500s because it is lighter and can be rolled.

### [Jean Achille Benouville](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/jean-achille-benouville)

French, 1815–1891

## Facts

- Type: Painting
- Culture: France, 19th century
- The artist was 31
- Real size: about 14 × 21 in (36 × 53 cm). The 16 × 20 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

## Get it

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- Framed reproduction: 8 × 10 in $78; 11 × 14 in $98; 12 × 16 in $108; 16 × 20 in $138; 18 × 24 in $164
- Canvas reproduction: 8 × 10 in $58; 11 × 14 in $72; 12 × 16 in $79; 16 × 20 in $98
- Print-ready file: 8 × 10 in $2; 11 × 14 in $2; 12 × 16 in $3; 16 × 20 in $3; 18 × 24 in $3

Sizes stop where the museum's file would print below 150 pixels per inch. Everything sold is a reproduction, made to order. [Order a print](https://www.ochreeditions.com/art/landscape-with-rider-on-white-horse-cma-168366).