id:			120821
accession number:	1941.547
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1941.547
updated:		2025-03-07 12:09:33.222000

Aeneas in the Underworld, Design for a Fan, after 1730. Follower of François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Watercolor and gouache; sheet: 27.2 x 54.8 cm (10 11/16 x 21 9/16 in.); secondary support: 35.2 x 64.7 cm (13 7/8 x 25 1/2 in.); tertiary support: 35.2 x 64.7 cm (13 7/8 x 25 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Otto Miller, 1941.547

title:				Aeneas in the Underworld, Design for a Fan
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creation date:			after 1730
creation date earliest:		1730
creation date latest:		1799
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creditline:			Gift of Mrs. Otto Miller
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	watercolor and gouache
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* François Boucher (French, 1703–1770)  - artist
French Rococo artist who epitomizes the frivolous and elegant court life of France in the mid-18th century. During his early career he was closely associated with Watteau, many of whose paintings he engraved. Boucher was a successful and incredibly prolific artistic who had a major impact on both fine and decorative art of the 18th century. He is particularly noted for having reinvented the genre of the pastoral, creating images of shepherds and shepherdesses as sentimental lovers that was taken up in a variety of medium. Boucher's sketchy manner of painting helped to promote painterliness as an end in itself. This trend dominated French painting until the emergence of Neoclassicism, when the tides of criticism turned against Boucher and his followers.
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measurements: Sheet: 27.2 x 54.8 cm (10 11/16 x 21 9/16 in.); Secondary Support: 35.2 x 64.7 cm (13 7/8 x 25 1/2 in.); Tertiary Support: 35.2 x 64.7 cm (13 7/8 x 25 1/2 in.)
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	description:	laid paper, laid down on two pieces (joined) of brown laid paper, laid down on a tertiary support of cream(3) laid paper
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Fans: East and West
	opening date:   1992-12-15T05:00:00
	<i>Fans: East and West</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 15, 1992-March 7, 1993).

	title:		Imagination in the Age of Reason
	opening date:   2024-09-28T04:00:00
	<i>Imagination in the Age of Reason</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 28, 2024-March 2, 2025).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Mrs. Otto Miller, Cleveland Heights, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: ?–1941
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 5, 1941–
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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1941.547/1941.547_print.jpg
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