id:			123705
accession number:	1944.237
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.237
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:58.427000

The Game of Leap Frog, 1785. Jean Guillaume Moitte (French, 1746–1810), Antoine-François Gérard (French, 1760–1843). Wax on slate; framed: 30 x 53.5 x 4 cm (11 13/16 x 21 1/16 x 1 9/16 in.); overall: 40.7 cm (16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.237

title:				The Game of Leap Frog
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creation date:			1785
creation date earliest:		1785
creation date latest:		1785
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	wax on slate
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Sculpture
type:		Sculpture
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CREATORS

* Jean Guillaume Moitte (French, 1746–1810)  - designed by

* Antoine-François Gérard (French, 1760–1843)  - executed by

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measurements: Framed: 30 x 53.5 x 4 cm (11 13/16 x 21 1/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Overall: 40.7 cm (16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Islamic Art
	opening date:   1944-11-03T04:00:00
	<i>Islamic Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945).

	title:		Neo-classicism: Style and Motif
	opening date:   1964-09-23T04:00:00
	<i>Neo-classicism: Style and Motif</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).

	title:		Rococo, Revolution, Restoration
	opening date:   1989-07-11T04:00:00
	<i>Rococo, Revolution, Restoration</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).

	title:		Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings
	opening date:   2016-07-16T04:00:00
	<i>Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (1944).', 'opening_date': '1944-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Cambacérès, Duc de Parma, Arch Chancellor of the Empire (1753-1824)
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	Prince Paul Demidoff, Palais de San Donato
	date: 1880
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	J. Pierpont Morgan (sold, Parke-Bernet, New York, March 25, 1944, lot 679)
	date: March 25, 1944
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	Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Company, Inc. (New York, New York), sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944.
	date: -1944
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1944-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Thirion, H.<em> Les Adam et Clodion</em>. Paris: A. Quantin, 1885.
	page number: 	p. 410, #679
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	Sotheby Parke Bernet Inc. <em>Furniture and Objects of Art, Part Two</em>. 1944.
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	Hawley, Henry H. Neo-Classicism: Style and Motif. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art; distributed by H.N. Abrams, New York, 1964.
	page number: 	cat. #67, repr.
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	Pyke, E. J.<em> A Biographical Dictionary of Wax Modellers</em>. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1973.
	page number: 	p. 30
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	Campbell, Richard J. <em>Jean-Guillaume Moitte: The Sculpture and Graphic Art 1785-1799</em>. 1983.
	page number: 	p. 309.
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	Ditner, David Charles.<em> Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century European Sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> 1986.
	page number: 	p. 230
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IMAGES

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