id: 127856
accession number: 1950.496
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.496
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Jacques Luc Barbier-Valbonne, 1796. Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767-1855). Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white gouache on beige wove paper; sheet: 26.2 x 20.7 cm (10 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Harry D. Kendrick 1950.496
title: Jacques Luc Barbier-Valbonne
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creation date: 1796
creation date earliest: 1796
creation date latest: 1796
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creditline: Gift of Harry D. Kendrick
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white gouache on beige wove paper
department: Drawings
collection: DR - French
type: Drawing
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CREATORS
* Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767-1855) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 26.2 x 20.7 cm (10 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.)
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description: cream(3) wove paper, partially discolored to yellow-brown
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition
opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00
35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).
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: Italian and French Drawings
opening date: 1959-10-13T04:00:00
Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960).
title: Drawings
opening date: 1963-01-11T05:00:00
Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).
title: French Drawings
opening date: 1965-11-10T05:00:00
French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 10, 1965-February 16, 1966).
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).
title: Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure
opening date: 1991-11-05T05:00:00
Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).
title: French Drawings from the Collection
opening date: 1994-12-13T05:00:00
French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).
title: Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings
opening date: 2016-07-16T04:00:00
Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* CMA, 17th and 18th Century Genre and French Drawings (May 31-Aug. 19, 1979).
CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (Apr. 27, 1972-Feb. 2, 1973).
CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (opened Dec. 1, 1970).
CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (1966).
CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (Sep. 19-Nov. 5, 1962).
CMA, Italian and French Drawings (Oct. 13, 1959-Feb. 2, 1960).
CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" ("rearranged Jan. 21, 1953").
CMA, "Accessions Preview Tea, Gallery XII" (Apr. 8, 1951).
CMA, "Director's Corridor" (from June 30, 1950).
CMA, "hung Director's Corridor" (Feb. 7, 1947 (still listed Aug. 8, 1947)).
CMA, Exhibition of French Art (June 22-Aug. 31, 1943).
CMA (?), "for exh. at same time as French Drawings and Water Colors, lent by French museums and circulated by San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum" (1942).
CMA, Drawings from 1630 to 1830 in the Classic and Romantic Tradition (Dec. 7, 1932-Jan. 11, 1933), cma Bulletin 19 (1932), p. 169.
CMA, French Art since Eighteen Hundred (1929), cma Bulletin 16 (1929), p. 155.
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PROVENANCE
(César de Hauke, Paris?, according to departmental catalog sheet); Henry G. Dalton, Cleveland (according to departmental card)
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The French Revolution (1789–99) disrupted all traditional hierarchies, including that of art, which habitually placed history painting in the highest regard. When Isabey exhibited this portrait of his friend and fellow artist in the 1796 salon, drawings had taken on significance as a more personal and egalitarian form of art. Isabey depicts Barbier as a solid citizen of the new Republic. The tasseled cap and embroidered jacket recall Barbier’s service as a hussar, a type of soldier; the vest, cravat, and “dog-ear” hairstyle were popular among young men in Paris at the time. Traditionally, however, a fashionable man would not be shown smoking, an activity usually associated with lower classes. Isabey’s focus on the long pipe and steady stream of smoke made the drawing especially populist for the time.
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