id: 134099 accession number: 1956.602 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1956.602 updated: 2024-08-08 15:14:42.214000 St. John the Evangelist, c. 1700–1702. Charles de La Fosse (French, 1636–1716). Black, red, and white chalk; sheet: 42 x 26.2 cm (16 9/16 x 10 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Alida di Nardo in memory of her husband, Antonio di Nardo 1956.602 title: St. John the Evangelist title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1700–1702 creation date earliest: 1695 creation date latest: 1707 current location: creditline: Gift of Alida di Nardo in memory of her husband, Antonio di Nardo copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: black, red, and white chalk department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Gustin-Gomez D.24 --- CREATORS * Charles de La Fosse (French, 1636–1716) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 42 x 26.2 cm (16 9/16 x 10 5/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige(1) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: verso, center, in brown ink: 191 [underlined with flourish]; upper left, in graphite: Lot 353 [underlined] / Hotel Drouot / Vente Chardey / 14-17 Mai/77; lower left, in graphite: C. Delafosse [underlined] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection opening date: 1965-05-06T04:00:00 Prints and Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 6-September 9, 1965). title: Drawings Before 1800 opening date: 1968-01-01T05:00:00 Drawings Before 1800. Wriston Art Galleries, Lawrence University, Appleton, WI (organizer) (January 1-February 29, 1968). title: French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections opening date: 1972-09-02T04:00:00 French Master Drawings of the 17th and 18th Centuries in North American Collections. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (September 2-October 15, 1972); Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (September 2-October 15, 1972); National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ont.,, Canada (November 3-December 17, 1972); The New York Cultural Center, New York, NY (April 4-May 13, 1973). title: Rubenism opening date: 1975-01-30T05:00:00 Rubenism. David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI (January 30-February 23, 1975). title: French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792 opening date: 1982-02-02T05:00:00 French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982). title: Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1982-11-16T05:00:00 Northern European Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1982-January 9, 1983). title: Treasures on Paper opening date: 1988-05-10T04:00:00 Treasures on Paper. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988). 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: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00 Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Unknown eighteenth-century? collector date: ?-? footnotes: *
Inventory number with flourish on verso corresponds to similar numbers on other sheets by artist; see Vercier 2000, p. 150.
citations: Rémi Valdemar Chardey [1813-1900], Le Havre date: ?-by 1877 footnotes: *
(On Chardey, see Vercier 2000, 136; Hedley 2001 notes that drawings by La Fosse with the Charday provenance are often in poor condition and show water damage. A pronounced water stain on the Cleveland sheet, visible in all previous photographs, was removed for this exhibition.
citations: (Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 14-17, 1877, no. 353) date: 1877 footnotes: *
As "vingt-six beaux Dessins au crayon noir et à la sanguine: Composition, Têtes d'expression, Études de nus et de draperies." Inscription on verso notes sheet was part of this lot.
citations: Mr. and Mrs. Antonio di Nardo, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: ?-1956 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Drawing Before 1800. Exh. Cat. Appleton, WI: Wooster Art Center at Lawrence University, 1968. page number: Mentioned: no. 23 url: Rosenberg, Pierre. French Master Drawings of the 17th & 18th Centuries in North American Collections. Translated by Catherine Johnston. Exh. Cat. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1972. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 67 url: Rosenberg, Pierre. "Dessins français du XVIIe et du XVIIIe siècle dans les collections américaines." L'Oeil, nos. 212-213 (August-September 1972): 10-15. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 12 url: Rubenism. Exh. Cat. Providence: Brown University, 1975. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 86-87, no. 23 url: "Drawings on Exhibition." Drawing 16, no. 6 (March - April 1995): 131-133. page number: Mentioned: p. 131 url: Vercier, Paul. "Trois dessins de Charles de La Fosse pour la Chapelle du château de Versailles." Versalia 1, no. 3 (2000): 128-139. page number: Mentioned: pp. 136-38; Reproduced: p. 136 (recto), 137 (verso) url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: pp. 98-99, pp. 287-88, no. 35; Reproduced: p. 99 url: Hedley, Jo. "Toward a New Century: Charles de La Fosse as a Draftsman." Master Drawings 39, no. 3 (Autumn 2001): 223-259. page number: Mentioned: p. 248, p. 258, no. 58 url: Gustin-Gomez, Clémentine. Charles de La Fosse, 1636-1716: Catalogue Raisonné. Dijon: Éditions Faton, 2006. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 186, no. D.24 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.602/1956.602_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.602/1956.602_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1956.602/1956.602_full.tif