id: 105769
accession number: 1923.854
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.854
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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
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creation date: c. 1850–60
creation date earliest: 1845
creation date latest: 1865
current location:
creditline: Dudley P. Allen Fund
copyright:
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: watercolor heightened with white gouache on off-white wove paper
department: Drawings
collection: DR - French
type: Drawing
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catalogue raisonne:
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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.
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measurements: Sheet: 31.8 x 21 cm (12 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)
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description: off-white wove paper
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inscriptions:
inscription: Inscribed, lower right, in red wash: Gavarni; lower left, in red wash: Les femmes sont farces!
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remark:
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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, Cleveland, OH (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 8, 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, Cleveland, OH (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: 1965-11-16T05:00:00
French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1965-February 16, 1966).
title: Brush Drawings
opening date: 1981-03-03T05:00:00
Brush Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-May 10, 1981).
title: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 2023-01-19T05:00:00
Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'French Watercolors, 1760–1860. University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor (September 29–October 24, 1965).', 'opening_date': '1965-10-24T00:00:00'}
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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-
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RELATED WORKS
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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:
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