{ "data": { "id": 132096, "accession_number": "1954.658", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Seated Female Nude, first third 1900s. Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865\u20131938). Black crayon; sheet: 17.2 x 16.5 cm (6 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.); secondary support: 18 x 17.3 cm (7 1/16 x 6 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William Mathewson Milliken, in memory of H. Oothout Milliken, 1954.658", "current_location": null, "title": "Seated Female Nude", "creation_date": "first third 1900s", "creation_date_earliest": 1867, "creation_date_latest": 1938, "artists_tags": [ "female" ], "culture": [ "France, 20th century" ], "technique": "black crayon", "support_materials": [ { "description": "yellow-beige(2) tracing paper laid down on beige(1) modern laid paper", "watermarks": [] } ], "department": "Drawings", "collection": "DR - French", "type": "Drawing", "measurements": "Sheet: 17.2 x 16.5 cm (6 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.); Secondary Support: 18 x 17.3 cm (7 1/16 x 6 13/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "sheet": { "height": 0.172, "height_inch": 6, "height_inch_fraction": 0.75, "width": 0.165, "width_inch": 6, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5 }, "secondary support": { "height": 0.18, "height_inch": 7, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0625, "width": 0.173, "width_inch": 6, "width_inch_fraction": 0.8125 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "signed, lower left, in graphite: S Valadon ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper right, in graphite: A", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [], "legacy": [ { "description": "CMA, \"installed, Gallery IX\" (June 15, 1956).", "opening_date": "1956-06-15T00:00:00" }, { "description": "CMA, \"French Prints and Drawings, Gallery XVI\" (Feb. 29-Apr. 27, 1956).", "opening_date": "1956-02-29T00:00:00" }, { "description": "CMA, \"French Drawings, Gallery XVI\" (Mar. 2-June 15, 1955).", "opening_date": "1955-03-02T00:00:00" }, { "description": "CMA, \"Preview of Outstanding Recent Accessions, Gallery XII\" (Apr. 3, 1955).", "opening_date": "1955-04-03T00:00:00" } ] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "(De Hauke & Co., Inc., New York, sold to William Mathewson Milliken, Cleveland, OH)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?-1929", "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "William Mathewson Milliken, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1929-1954", "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1954-", "sortorder": 3 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": null, "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80023798" ], "internet_archive": [ "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1954.658-seated-female-nude" ] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "Milliken, William Mathewson. \u201cGifts to the Cleveland Museum of Art.\u201d The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 10 (December 1974): 371\u2013383.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 374-375", "url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25152561" } ], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.658", "images": { "annotation": null, "web": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.658/1954.658_web.jpg", "width": "855", "height": "893", "filesize": "610475", "filename": "1954.658_web.jpg" }, "print": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.658/1954.658_print.jpg", "width": "3257", "height": "3400", "filesize": "7864154", "filename": "1954.658_print.jpg" }, "full": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1954.658/1954.658_full.tif", "width": "4224", "height": "4409", "filesize": "55899744", "filename": "1954.658_full.tif" } }, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Gift of William Mathewson Milliken, in memory of H. Oothout Milliken", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 132096, "creators": [ { "id": 1827, "description": "Suzanne Valadon (French, 1865\u20131938)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Born out of wedlock under the given name Marie-Cl\u00e9mentine, Suzanne Valadon spent her early years in Paris and Nantes, where her single mother worked as a cleaning woman. Valadon was enrolled in a religious school in Paris until 1876, then apprenticed in a dressmaking shop, a florist, and an open-air market before she started drawing. She briefly worked as a trapeze artist in a circus in the beginning of the 1880s, but a fall forced her to look for another occupation. She then began working as a model, posing for Henner (q.v.), Puvis de Chavannes (q.v.), Renoir (q.v.), Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), and several other painters. Around this time she chose to be called Suzanne. In 1883, when she was eighteen years old, she gave birth to a son, future painter Maurice Utrillo (1883-1955). Encouraged by Degas (q.v.) and Renoir, she became a full-time painter in 1896, financially supported by her new husband, Paul Mousis. Degas taught her printmaking and introduced her to the dealers Durand-Ruel and Vollard. Valadon divorced Mousis in 1909 to marry Andr\u00e9 Utter (1886-1948), a painter and a friend of her son. Beginning in 1909 she exhibited regularly at the Salon d'Automne, and from 1912 she participated in the Salon des Ind\u00e9pendants. Valadon painted portraits, landscapes, nudes, and still lifes.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1865", "death_year": "1938", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "1954-12-04T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1867, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "first third 1900s", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [ "Seated Nude Figure" ], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-08-03 14:14:48.048000" } }