id:			122636
accession number:	1942.881
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1942.881
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:53.890000

Landscape with Cows, second half 19th century. Émile van Marcke (French, 1827–1890). Graphite, with gray ground scratched away for heightening; sheet: 15.8 x 11.4 cm (6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hays Gries 1942.881

title:				Landscape with Cows
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creation date:			second half 19th century
creation date earliest:		1827
creation date latest:		1890
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creditline:			Gift of Robert Hays Gries
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	graphite, with gray ground scratched away for heightening
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Émile van Marcke (French, 1827–1890)  - artist
Like his Dutch father, Jean-Baptiste van Marcke de Lummen (1797-1849), Émile van Marcke was at first employed as a painter-decorator for the Manufacture de Porcelaine in Sèvres, where he met Constant Troyon (1810-1865), another employee who influenced his career as an animal painter and who introduced him to the Barbizon painters. Van Marcke's first animal studies were made at the imperial farms at Villeneuve-l'Étang and in Grignon, where he was a frequent visitor. He then spent time in Brittany, the Landes, and Sologne, finally settling in Bouttencourt in Normandy. He almost exclusively painted animals, but he also produced some landscapes and beach scenes. Although he first began exhibiting at the Salon of 1857, it was only after the death of Troyon in 1865 that van Marcke began to attract attention in his chosen genre. Highly valued by English and American collectors, his work sold readily in these countries, where he began exhibiting in 1878. While lacking the breadth of vision and the variety of style found in Troyon's work, van Marcke's oeuvre is that of an honest artisan who deserved the esteem in which he was held. He received the Legion of Honor in 1872.
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measurements: Sheet: 15.8 x 11.4 cm (6 1/4 x 4 1/2 in.)
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	description:	cream(1) laid paper prepared with gray ground
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	inscription:	signed, lower right, in graphite: Emile Van Marcke ; VERSO, upper left, in graphite: [illegible, partially masked] 1 ; upper right, in graphite: A #2  25- ; upper center, in graphite: Felix Braud / 33, Rue Nue [ue superscript] de Petit-Champs / -Paris ; lower right, in graphite: 228
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Nocturnal Impressions
	opening date:   1985-02-20T05:00:00
	<i>Nocturnal Impressions</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 12, 1985).

	title:		The Graphic Art of the Barbizon School
	opening date:   1987-03-17T05:00:00
	<i>The Graphic Art of the Barbizon School</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 17-May 17, 1987).

	title:		Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection
	opening date:   1990-08-07T04:00:00
	<i>Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

	title:		French Drawings from the Collection
	opening date:   1994-12-13T05:00:00
	<i>French Drawings from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'CMA, French Drawings from the Collection (Dec. 13, 1994-Mar. 12, 1995).', 'opening_date': '1994-12-13T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection (Aug. 7-Oct. 28, 1990).', 'opening_date': '1990-08-07T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, The Graphic Art of the Barbizon School (Mar. 17-May 17, 1987).', 'opening_date': '1987-03-17T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'CMA, Nocturnal Impressions (Feb. 27-May 12, 1985).', 'opening_date': '1985-02-27T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Daniel A. Huebsch, Cleveland (according to departmental card)
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