id:			97137
accession number:	1916.777
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.777
updated:		2025-02-08 22:29:45.315000

Old Woman Asleep, Mid 19th century. Possibly France, mid-19th Century. Oil on fabric; unframed: 31.8 x 41.3 cm (12 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Holden Collection 1916.777

title:				Old Woman Asleep
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creation date:			Mid 19th century
creation date earliest:		1825
creation date latest:		1875
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creditline:			Holden Collection
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culture:	possibly France, mid-19th Century
technique:	oil on fabric
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

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measurements: Unframed: 31.8 x 41.3 cm (12 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.)
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	inscription:	Monogram on envelope at right edge of window sill: ard/f or rd/f

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Inaugural Exhibition
	opening date:   1916-06-06T05:00:00
	<i>Inaugural Exhibition</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Boston. American Exhibition of Foreign Products, Arts, and Manufactures, "Jarves Collection" (1883), no. 417.', 'opening_date': '1883-01-01T04:56:02Z'}

* {'description': 'Cleveland, Hickcox Building. Cleveland Art Loan Exhibition (1894), no. 16.', 'opening_date': '1894-01-01T05:00:00Z'}

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PROVENANCE

	By 1883, James Jackson Jarves, Boston. Purchased along with Jarves's collection in 1884 by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1916.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	The Cleveland Museum of Art<em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 517; Mentioned: p. 517-518
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	Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. <em>Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 44-45, cat. no. 52
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Holden_80856/page/n54

	Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. <em>Catalogue of Paintings</em>. <em>Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 656-657, Vol. II, no. 234
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