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accession number: 1943.659
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Sophie Crouzet, c. 1801. Louis Hersent (French, 1777–1860). Oil on fabric; framed: 101 x 85.5 x 12.5 cm (39 3/4 x 33 11/16 x 4 15/16 in.); unframed: 81.2 x 65 cm (31 15/16 x 25 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Grace Rainey Rogers Fund 1943.659
title: Sophie Crouzet
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creation date: c. 1801
creation date earliest: 1796
creation date latest: 1806
current location: 202 French Neoclassical Decorative Arts
creditline: Grace Rainey Rogers Fund
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culture: France, late 18th-early 19th century
technique: oil on fabric
department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Louis Hersent (French, 1777–1860) - artist
The son of Romain-Théodore Hersent, a silversmith, Louis Hersent was sent to learn the art of painting in the studio of Jean-Baptiste Regnault (1754-1829). He achieved second place for the Prix de Rome in 1797 but became seriously ill the following year and was forced to withdraw from the studio. He then briefly ventured into business but soon returned to art. A cousin of Hersent, Pierre Crouzet, worked as director of the military academy at Compiègne. Through this connection Hersent became a drawing instructor to its students in 1800. Crouzet transferred to Saint-Cyr the following year, and Hersent may have followed him there. Hersent was first accepted at the Salon of 1802 with Narcissus (Musée des Beaux-Arts, Arras). His early work recalls David (q.v.), but soon Hersent expanded his subject matter to include contemporary history; depictions of Native Americans based on legends, stories, or anthropological studies; official portraits; and European history. He enjoyed official success, receiving the Legion of Honor in 1819 and being elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1822. His wife, Louise-Marie-Jeanne Mauduit (1784-1862), was a painter herself who ran a studio to teach other women artists. Hersent became professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1825, replacing Girodet (q.v.). He opened his own studio at that time, and his pupils included Charles Gleyre (1806-1874), Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), and Jacques-Raymond Brascassat (1804-1867). In 1837 he became vice president of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, and the following year served as its president.
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measurements: Framed: 101 x 85.5 x 12.5 cm (39 3/4 x 33 11/16 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 81.2 x 65 cm (31 15/16 x 25 9/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter
opening date: 1956-03-08T05:00:00
Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956).
title: Problem Pictures
opening date: 1965-10-13T04:00:00
Problem Pictures. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (organizer) (October 13-November 15, 1965).
title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual
opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00
Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
title: Rococo, Revolution, Restoration
opening date: 1989-07-11T04:00:00
Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum. Loan Exhibition of Distinguished Works of Art (1928), no. 25, Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of a Woman, lent by Wildenstein & Co.', 'opening_date': '1928-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum. Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1929), no. 23 (repr.), David, Citoyenne Crouzet, Wildenstein & Co.', 'opening_date': '1929-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Toledo Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Toronto. The Spirit of Modern France: An Essay on Painting in Society 1745-1946 (1946-47), no. 13, La Citoyenne Courzet [sic] 1795 (repr.).', 'opening_date': '1946-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'New York, Wildenstein & Co. French XVIIIth Century Paintings (1948), 5, David, La Citoyenne Crouzet.', 'opening_date': '1948-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Detroit Institute of Arts. From David to Courbet (1950), no. 3, David, La Citoyenne Crouzet.', 'opening_date': '1950-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Seattle Art Museum. Masterpieces of Nineteenth Century Painting and Sculpture (7 March-6 May 1951), no cat.', 'opening_date': '1951-03-07T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum. Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition-The Beginnings of Modern Painting, France 1800-1900 (1951), 4, David, La Citoyenne Crouzet.', 'opening_date': '1951-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Winnipeg Art Gallery. French Pre-Impressionist Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1954), 8, no. 3 (repr.), David, La Citoyenne Crouzet.', 'opening_date': '1954-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Fort Worth Art Center. Inaugural Exhibition (1954), no. 18, David, La Citoyenne Crouzet (repr.).', 'opening_date': '1954-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Art Gallery of Toronto. Comparisons (1957), no. 20, David, La Citoyenne Couzet [sic].', 'opening_date': '1957-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Akron (Ohio) Art Institute. Masterpiece of the Month (2-28 September 1958), as David; no cat.', 'opening_date': '1958-09-02T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art. The Romantic Era: Birth and Flowering 1750-1850 (1965), no. 26 (repr.), Circle of David, La Citoyenne Crouzet.', 'opening_date': '1965-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Poughkeepsie, Vassar College Art Gallery. Problem Pictures: Paintings without Authors (1965), no. 22, Circle of Jacques Louis David, La Citoyenne Crouzet (?), ca. 1800.', 'opening_date': '1965-01-01T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Kansas City, Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts. The Taste of Napoleon (1969), no. 23 (repr.), Circle of David, La Citoyenne Crouzet.', 'opening_date': '1969-01-01T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
Sophie Crouzet, retained by, until her death in 1844.
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By inheritance to her son Félix-Adolphe Crouzet.
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By inheritance to his daughter Sophie Crouzet, wife of Gustave-François Bourotte.
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By inheritance to their first-born son Eugène (d. 1899).
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By inheritance to his brother Émile Bourotte, then by inheritance to his wife, Mme Joséphine Darte-Bourotte, Versailles.
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Sold to Wildenstein & Co., New York, probably in the early 1920s.
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Grace Rainey Rogers sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 November 1943 (lot 51), as Jacques-Louis David, Citoyenne Crouzet.
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Purchased by the CMA in 1943.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945.
page number: Reproduced: p. 33
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAPaintings1945/page/n41
Francis, Henry S. “A Portrait by Jacques Louis David.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 6 (June 1945): 83–85.
Attributed to: Jacques Louis David
page number: Mentioned : p. 83-85; Reproduced: Cover
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25141209
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 492
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n90
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page number: Reproduced: p. 164
url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n188
D’Argencourt, Louise. “The Story of a Painting: A Romance in Attribution.” Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 1 (1996): 116–129.
page number: Mentioned: p. 116-129; Reproduced: p. 117, fig. 1
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079684
Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 357-360, Vol. II, no. 125
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Jackall, Yuriko. America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting. Chicago, IL : Art Stock Books, Independent Publishers Group, 2017.
page number: Reproduced: p. 104, fig. 3
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IMAGES
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print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.659/1943.659_print.jpg
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