id:			122563
accession number:	1942.819
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.819
updated:		2025-02-09 00:55:07.261000

Children Playing: The Bath, 1700s. Workshop of Charron (French), after a design by François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Tapestry weave: silk and wool; overall: 101 x 114.3 cm (39 3/4 x 45 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of John L. Severance 1942.819

title:				Children Playing: The Bath
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creation date:			1700s
creation date earliest:		1700
creation date latest:		1799
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creditline:			Bequest of John L. Severance
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culture:	France, Beauvais, 18th century
technique:	tapestry weave: silk and wool
department:	Textiles
collection:	Textiles
type:		Tapestry
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CREATORS

* Charron (French)  - manufacturer

* 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: Overall: 101 x 114.3 cm (39 3/4 x 45 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection
	opening date:   1942-11-12T04:00:00
	<i>Exhibition of the John L. Severance Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (November 12, 1942-March 14, 1943).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	John L. Severance [1863–1936], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: ?–1942
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1942–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of the John L. Severance Collection: Bequest of John L. Severance, 1936.</em> [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1942.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 60, cat. no. 122
	url:		https://archive.org/details/SeveranceBequest/page/n64

	Milliken, William M., Gertrude Underhill, and Jean Mailey. "Department of Decorative Arts." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 29, no. 9 (November 1942): 137–151.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 148–149
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25141017

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IMAGES

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