id: 105769 accession number: 1923.854 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1923.854 updated: 2025-04-29 11:06:19.369000 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, 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). --- 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'} --- 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: digital description: 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