id:			112979
accession number:	1931.72
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1931.72
updated:		2022-04-09 09:00:31.737000

Panel, c. 1780–1840. Russia, Tambov province. Linen: plain weave; silk; embroidery; overall: 14.6 x 46 cm (5 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Kathleen Van Meter 1931.72

title:				Panel
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creation date:			c. 1780–1840
creation date earliest:		1775
creation date latest:		1845
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creditline:			Gift of Kathleen Van Meter
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culture:	Russia, Tambov province
technique:	Linen: plain weave; silk; embroidery
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Embroidery
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measurements: Overall: 14.6 x 46 cm (5 3/4 x 18 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Goddesses and their Offspring: 19th and 20th century Eastern European Embroideries
	opening date:   1987-02-10T05:00:00
	<i>Goddesses and their Offspring: 19th and 20th century Eastern European Embroideries</i>. Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY (February 10-April 19, 1987); Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood, OH (September 11-October 25, 1987).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Collection of Natalia Leonidovna Shabelsky, Moscow, Russia (1841-1904/5), by inheritance to her daughters
	date: -1904/5
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	Princess Alexandre Sidamon-Eristoff and Mlle. N. de Chabelskoy, sold through B.M. Pushkin
	date: 1904/05-1931
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	(Count B. M. Pushkin, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 1931
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, deaccessioned and sold to Kathleen van Meter
	date: 1931-2006
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	Kathleen van Meter, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2006–2020
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2020–
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fun fact: 
Embroidering the ends of everyday towels was a common folk tradition in many cultures because it displayed the skill of the mother or daughter who stitched them.

digital description: 
This Russian embroidered panel was likely used to embellish the end of a bathing towel. Textiles of this type are valuable for their fine embroidery of ancient folk motifs, ritual significance, exemplification of the role of textiles in their society, and in this case, connection to a prominent woman collector, Natalia de Shabelsky, without whom this textile and others like it might have been lost.

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Pushkin, B. M, B. M Pushkin, N. de Shabelsky, and N. de Shabelsky. <em>Exhibition of National Russian Art, 17th, 18th and Early 19th Centuries: Peasant Embroideries, Costumes, Headdresses, Hand-Woven Materials, Laces, Ikons, Articles of Silver, Copper, Etc.: Shown by Count and Countess B.m.-Pushkin</em>. Place of publication not identified: publisher not identified, 1900.
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	Sidamon-Eristoff, V. P., Princess. <em>Sobranīe russkoĭ stariny Kn. V.P. Sidamon-Ėristovoĭ i N.P. Shabelʹskoĭ: vypusk I-ĭ, vyshivki i kruzheva = Antiquités russes, collection princesse Sidamon-Eristoff et Mlle. N. de Schabelskoi</em>. Moskva, 1910.
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	Holme, Charles, and Studio. <em>Peasant Art in Russia</em>. The Studio, 1912. Special No. London: "The Studio", 1912.
	page number: 	p. 3-11
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	Schwoeffermann, Catherine, Peter Klosky, and Merrill Oliver. <em>Goddesses and Their Offspring: 19th and 20th Century Eastern European Embroideries</em>. Binghamton, N.Y.: Roberson Center for the Arts &amp; Sciences, 1986.
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	Kelly, Mary B. "Embroidery for the Goddess." <em>Threads Magazine</em> 11 (June/July 1987).
	page number: 	p. 26-9
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	Kelly, Mary B. <em>Goddess Embroideries of Eastern Europe</em>. Winona, MN: Northland Press of Winona, 1989.
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	Grusman, V. M., Elena Madlevskai︠a︡, and Karina Solovʹeva. <em>Collection Chabelskaya: une Russie fin de siècle: portrait de femmes en costume traditionnel</em>. 2010.
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	Lovings-Gomez, Lauren. “The Lost Narrative of Natalia Shabelsky’s Collection of Russian Textiles.” In <em>Hidden Stories/Human Lives: Proceedings of the Textile Society of America 17th Biennial Symposium</em>, October 15-17, 2020. UNL Commons. Accessed 10/20/2021 from <a href="https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/">https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/</a>. doi: 10.32873/unl.dc.tsasp.0117
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	url:		https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsaconf/

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IMAGES

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