{"data": {"id": 543981, "accession_number": "2023.122", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "The Dutton Family in the Drawing Room of Sherborne Park, Gloucestershire, c. 1772. Johann Zoffany (German, 1733\u20131810). Oil on canvas; unframed: 101.5 x 127 cm (39 15/16 x 50 in.); framed: 124.5 x 149.9 x 7.6 cm (49 x 59 x 3 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund, 2023.122", "current_location": "203A British Painting and Decorative Arts", "title": "The Dutton Family in the Drawing Room of Sherborne Park, Gloucestershire", "creation_date": "c. 1772", "creation_date_earliest": 1771, "creation_date_latest": 1772, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["England"], "technique": "oil on canvas", "support_materials": [], "department": "European Painting and Sculpture", "collection": "P - British before 1800", "type": "Painting", "measurements": "Unframed: 101.5 x 127 cm (39 15/16 x 50 in.); Framed: 124.5 x 149.9 x 7.6 cm (49 x 59 x 3 in.)", "dimensions": {"unframed": {"height": 1.015, "height_inch": 39, "height_inch_fraction": 0.9375, "width": 1.27, "width_inch": 50, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}, "framed": {"height": 1.245, "height_inch": 49, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 1.499, "width_inch": 59, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0, "depth": 0.076, "depth_inch": 3, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [], "legacy": [{"description": "Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom (1907), no. 143.", "opening_date": "1907-01-01T05:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>English Conversation Pieces: Exhibition in Aid of the Royal Northern Hospital. </em>Royal Northern Hospital, 25 Park Lane, London (March 1930), no. 59.", "opening_date": "1930-03-01T05:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>English Eighteenth-Century Portraits</em>. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I. (November 12-30, 1932)", "opening_date": "1932-11-12T05:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture</em>. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (June 1 - November 1 1933) no. 208.", "opening_date": "1933-06-01T04:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>La Peinture Anglaise, XVIII et XIX sie\u0300cles. </em>Muse\u0301e du Louvre, Paris (March-July 1938), no. 157.", "opening_date": "1938-03-01T05:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>European Masters of the Eighteenth Century</em>. Royal Academy, London. (November 27, 1954 - February 27, 1955), no. 100.", "opening_date": "1954-11-27T05:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>Le sie\u0300cle de l'e\u0301le\u0301gance: la demeure anglaise au XVIIIe sie\u0300cle</em>. (February - May 1959), no. 215.", "opening_date": "1959-02-01T05:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>The Eye of Thomas Jefferson. </em>National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (June 5 - September 6, 1976), no. 76.", "opening_date": "1976-06-05T04:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>Rococo: Arts and Design in Hogarth's England</em>. Victoria and Albert Museum, London (May 16 - September 30, 1984), no. M31.", "opening_date": "1984-05-01T04:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>Johann Zoffany RA: Society Observed</em>. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven and Royal Academy, London (October 27, 2011 - June 10, 2012), London only.", "opening_date": "2011-10-27T04:00:00Z"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Commissioned by James Lenox Dutton (1712-1776), Sherborne Park, Gloucestershire, and by descent to his son", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "c. 1772-1776", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "James Dutton, 1st Baron Sherborne (1744-1820), and thence by descent to James Huntly Dutton, 6th Baron Sherborne (1873-1949)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1776-1929", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "(Christie's London, June 28, 1929 (lot 72), where acquired for 7000 gns by Daniel Haddock Farr)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1929", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "(with Daniel Haddock Farr (1876-1976), dealer, New York, NY and Philadelphia, PA)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1929-1937", "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "Walter Samuel, 2nd Viscount Bearsted (1882-1948), London, and thence by descent to Peter Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted (1911-1996)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "by 1938-1996", "sortorder": 5}, {"description": "The Descendants of Peter Samuel, 4th Viscount Bearsted; (Sotheby's London, June 14, 2001 (lot 16), where acquired by European Private Collection)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1996-2001", "sortorder": 6}, {"description": "European Private Collection", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2001-2023", "sortorder": 7}, {"description": "(Christie's Private Sale to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2023-", "sortorder": 8}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This is an idealized, not actual, room showing the sitters\u2019 fashionable interior decorating aspirations.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This type of picture, known as a conversation piece, was invented in England in the 1700s and popular for the informal way it represented families. A father and daughter, mother and son, are strategizing over the next hand in a game of cards. The family recently lost a loved one, so the parents are dressed in full mourning (black clothing), and the siblings in lesser mourning (mauve, white, and gray).", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122778439"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2023.122-the-dutton-family-in"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Willoughby, L. \"Sherborne House.\", <em>Connoisseur</em> Vol. XXX (1911):", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 10,12", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Manners, Victoria, and George C. Williamson. <em>John Zoffany, R.A., His Life and Works. 1735-1810</em>. London: John Lane, 1920.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 154, 233, 277", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Williamson, George C. <em>English Conversation Pictures of the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries</em>. London: B.T. Batsford, 1931.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 3, 14-15; Reproduced: pl. xl", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Sitwell, Sacheverell, Michel Sevier, and Rex Whistler. <em>Conversation Pieces: A Survey of English Domestic Portraits and Their Painters</em>. London: B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1936.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 24-25, 34, 36-37, 40, 43, 46-47, 94; Reproduced: pl.29", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Mann, Harrington. <em>The Technique of Portrait Painting</em>. London: Seeley Service &amp; Company, 1948.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 78; Reproduced: pl. 72", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Praz, Mario. <em>Conversation Pieces; A Survey of the Informal Group Portrait in Europe and America</em>. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1971.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 99-100; Reproduced: fig. 60", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Paulson, Ronald.<em> Emblem and Expression: Meaning in English Art of the Eighteenth Century</em>. London: Thames and Hudson, 1975.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 156-7", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Ward-Jackson, Peter W. <em>Le sie\u0300cle de l'e\u0301le\u0301gance: la demeure anglaise au XVIIIe sie\u0300cle</em>. Paris: Muse\u0301e des Arts Decoratifs, 1959.", "page_number": "Reproduced: no. 215", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Adams, William Howard. <em>The Eye of Thomas Jefferson</em>: [Exhibition]. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1976.", "page_number": "Reproduced: no. 76", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Snodin, Michael. <em>Rococo: Art and Design in Hogarth's England</em> : [Exhibition] the Victoria and Albert Museum. London: Trefoil Books, 1984.", "page_number": "Reproduced: no. M31", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Webster, Mary.<em> Johan Zoffany, 1733-1810</em>. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press, 2011.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 172-3; Reproduced: fig. 152", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Zoffany, Johann, Martin Postle, and Clarissa Campbell Orr. <em>Johan Zoffany RA: Society Observed</em>. New Haven: Yale Center for British Art, 2011.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 256; Reproduced: no. 75", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Rhode Island School of Design. <em>Exhibition of English Eighteenth-Century Portraits</em>. [Providence]: Rhode Island School of Design, 1932.", "page_number": "", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Bradbury, Oliver. \"One family's 'heroic age': The forgotten treasures of Dutton patronage - and remnants of lost William Kent?\" <em>The British Art Journal </em>14, no. 3 (2013/2014): 21-26.", "page_number": "", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Korkow, Cory. \"The Conversation Piece. 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