id:			123406
accession number:	1943.636
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.636
updated:		2025-08-07 20:51:58.662000

Portrait of a Man in a Landscape, c. 1795. Marie Gabrielle Capet (French, 1761–1818). Watercolor on ivory in a gold engraved frame (probably converted from a snuffbox) with a blue corded silk back; diameter: 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.); diameter of frame: 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1943.636

title:				Portrait of a Man in a Landscape
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creation date:			c. 1795
creation date earliest:		1791
creation date latest:		1801
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creditline:			The Edward B. Greene Collection
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	watercolor on ivory in a gold engraved frame (probably converted from a snuffbox) with a blue corded silk back
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - French 18th Century
type:		Portrait Miniature
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CREATORS

* Marie Gabrielle Capet (French, 1761–1818)  - artist

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measurements: Diameter: 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.); Diameter of frame: 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.)
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	inscription:	signed lower right:  Capet
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America
	opening date:   1993-03-26T04:00:00
	<i>Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993).

	title:		Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives
	opening date:   2013-11-10T00:00:00
	<i>Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>International Exhibition of Miniatures</em>, Vienna, Albertina, (1924).', 'opening_date': '1924-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Main Gallery Rotation Gallery 202, </em>The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 6, 2009 - October 26, 2009).', 'opening_date': '2009-04-06T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Art Treasures Exhibition</em>, Association of British Art Dealers, Grafton Gallery, London, (1928).', 'opening_date': '1928-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	A. Forgeron Paris, France
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	(Sale: Forgeron, Paris, France, Dec. 3-4, 1909, no. 164).
	date: Dec. 3-4, 1909
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	Edouard Warneck, Paris, France
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	(Sale: Edouard Warneck, Schidlof, Vienna Nov. 19, 1924, no. 38, pl. III).
	date: Nov. 19, 1924
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	[Possibly sold by Phillips to Nachemsohn, dealer in London, only to buy it back in 1927]
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	(S. J. Phillips, London, England, sold to Edward B. Greene).
	date: -1930
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	Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland, OH gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1943.
	date: 1930-1943
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1943-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>International Exhibition of Miniatures</em>, Vienna, Albertina, (1924).
	page number: 	cat. no. 129, repr. pl. VII
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	Galerie Leo Schidlof, Vienna. <em>Miniaturensammlung Warneck</em>, II. Teil. 1924.
	page number: 	no. 38, pl. III
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	British Antique Dealers' Association, and Grafton Galleries (London). <em>Exhibition of Art Treasures: (Under the Auspices of the British Antique Dealers' Association)</em>. London: Grafton Galleries, 1928.
	page number: 	no. 1181.
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	Doria, Arnauld. <em>Gabrielle Capet.</em> Paris: Les Beaux-arts, édition d'études et de documents, 1934.
	page number: 	no. 51, repr. pl. XXX, fig. 34
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene.<em> Portrait Miniatures ; The Edward B. Greene Collection.</em> 1951.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced; p. 33, no. 56, plate XXXIII
	url:		https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures/page/n79

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IMAGES

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