id: 105769 accession number: 1923.854 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.854 updated: 2022-06-10 18:37:10.260000 Pierrot, c. 1850-60. Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866). 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 title: Pierrot title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1850-60 creation date earliest: 1845 creation date latest: 1865 current location: creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: watercolor heightened with white gouache on off-white wove paper department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Paul Gavarni (French, 1804-1866) - artist Gavarni captured the private lives of Parisians in the over 4,000 illustrations he produced for journals and magazines. --- measurements: Sheet: 31.8 x 21 cm (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: off-white wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: Inscribed, lower right, in red wash: Gavarni; lower left, in red wash: Les femmes sont farces! translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Miscellaneous Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collections opening date: 1924-06-23T04:00:00 Miscellaneous Prints and Drawings from the Museum Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art (June 23-October 23, 1924). title: Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830 opening date: 1932-12-07T05:00:00 Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 11, 1933). title: Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections opening date: 1935-07-12T04:00:00 Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 12-September 15, 1935). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1937-05-28T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 28-December 9, 1937). title: Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1939-01-04T05:00:00 Old Master Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 4-March 26, 1939). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1940-07-11T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1941-03-04T05:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 27, 1941). title: French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections opening date: 1942-01-06T05:00:00 French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942). title: Drawings from the Museum Collection opening date: 1942-06-17T04:00:00 Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942). title: 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans opening date: 1943-06-22T04:00:00 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943). title: Drawings opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00 Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963). title: French Watercolors opening date: 1965-09-29T04:00:00 French Watercolors. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (organizer) (September 29-October 10, 1965). title: French Drawings opening date: 1965-11-10T05:00:00 French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 10, 1965-February 16, 1966). title: Brush Drawings opening date: 1981-03-03T05:00:00 Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (March 3-May 10, 1981). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * French Watercolors, 1760–1860. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (September 29–October 24, 1965). --- PROVENANCE (Keppel & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-1923 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1923- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: Around the time that Paul Gavarni made this drawing, he also created a series of prints called School of the Pierrots (1851–53), which chronicled the character's misadventures. digital description: This drawing, by caricaturist Paul Gavarni, presents a character from pantomime and festival culture. 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS T. S. "An Exhibition of Drawings." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 11, no. 7 (1924): 140-44. page number: Mentioned: p. 124; Reproduced: on cover url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136780 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1925. page number: Reproduced: p. 45 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook_80839/page/n47 French Watercolors, 1760–1860. Exh. cat. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1965. page number: Mentioned: no. 50 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.854/1923.854_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.854/1923.854_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1923.854/1923.854_full.tif