{"data": {"id": 105769, "accession_number": "1923.854", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Pierrot, c. 1850\u201360. Paul Gavarni (French, 1804\u20131866). Watercolor heightened with white gouache on off-white wove paper; sheet: 31.8 x 21 cm (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1923.854", "current_location": null, "title": "Pierrot", "creation_date": "c. 1850\u201360", "creation_date_earliest": 1845, "creation_date_latest": 1865, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["France, 19th century"], "technique": "watercolor heightened with white gouache on off-white wove paper", "support_materials": [{"description": "off-white wove paper", "watermarks": []}], "department": "Drawings", "collection": "DR - French", "type": "Drawing", "measurements": "Sheet: 31.8 x 21 cm (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"sheet": {"height": 0.318, "height_inch": 12, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 0.21, "width_inch": 8, "width_inch_fraction": 0.25}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "Inscribed, lower right, in red wash: Gavarni; lower left, in red wash: Les femmes sont farces!", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 344612, "title": "Miscellaneous Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collections", "description": "<i>Miscellaneous Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collections</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 23-October 23, 1924).", "opening_date": "1924-06-23T04:00:00"}, {"id": 350090, "title": "Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830", "description": "<i>Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 8, 1933).", "opening_date": "1932-12-07T05:00:00"}, {"id": 361204, "title": "Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections", "description": "<i>Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 12-September 15, 1935).", "opening_date": "1935-07-12T04:00:00"}, {"id": 356272, "title": "Drawings from the Museum Collection", "description": "<i>Drawings from the Museum Collection</i>. 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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941).", "opening_date": "1941-03-04T05:00:00"}, {"id": 312333, "title": "French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections", "description": "<i>French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942).", "opening_date": "1942-01-06T05:00:00"}, {"id": 347490, "title": "Drawings from the Museum Collection", "description": "<i>Drawings from the Museum Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942).", "opening_date": "1942-06-17T04:00:00"}, {"id": 312176, "title": "19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans", "description": "<i>19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans</i>. 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Called Pierrot, he is recognizable by his comically ill-fitting clothes and was popular in performances during Gavarni's lifetime. The artist drew Pierrot several times late in his career, often adding humorous captions, which likely related to his work in printmaking and illustration.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79891724"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1923.854-pierrot"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "T. S. \"An Exhibition of Drawings.\" <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 11, no. 7 (1924): 140-44.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 124; Reproduced: on cover", "url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136780"}, {"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 45", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n47"}, {"citation": "<em>French Watercolors, 1760\u20131860</em>. Exh. cat. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1965.", "page_number": "Mentioned: no. 50", "url": null}, {"citation": "Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. 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