id:			141641
accession number:	1965.235
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Memento Mori, "To This Favour", 1879. William Michael Harnett (American, 1848–1892). Oil on canvas; framed: 77.9 x 98.4 x 8.6 cm (30 11/16 x 38 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.); unframed: 61.3 x 81.5 cm (24 1/8 x 32 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 1965.235

title:				Memento Mori, "To This Favour"
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creation date:			1879
creation date earliest:		1879
creation date latest:		1879
current location:		207 American Realism
creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture:	America
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	American Painting and Sculpture
collection:	American - Painting
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* William Michael Harnett (American, 1848–1892)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 77.9 x 98.4 x 8.6 cm (30 11/16 x 38 3/4 x 3 3/8 in.); Unframed: 61.3 x 81.5 cm (24 1/8 x 32 1/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed lower right:  WMHARNETT / 1879 [WMH in monogram].
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1965
	opening date:   1965-10-27T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1965</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The Reality of Appearance: The Trompe L\'Oeil Tradition in American Painting (21 March-3 May 1970); traveled to New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (19 May-5 July 1970); (not shown at Berkeley and Detroit), cat. no. 28, pp. 6-9, 56-93, listed p. 64, illus. p. 65 as Memento Mori-"To This Favour."', 'opening_date': '1970-03-21T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'Tulsa, Philbrook Art Center, Painters of the Humble Truth: Masterpieces of American Still Life, 1801-1939 (27 September-1 November 1981); traveled to Oakland, Oakland Museum of Art (8 December 1981-24 January 1982); Baltimore, Baltimore Museum of Art (2 March-25 April 1982), illus. p. 156, fig. 8.4 as Memento Mori-"To This Favour," pp. 153-207, 292.', 'opening_date': '1981-09-27T00:00:00'}

* {'description': 'New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, William M. Harnett (14 March-14 June 1992); traveled to Fort Worth, Amon Carter Museum (18 July-18 October 1992); San Francisco, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (14 November 1992-14 February 1993); Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art (14 March-13 June 1993), cat. no. 12, illus. p. 10, plate 12, pp. xiv-xvi, 148-159 (John Wilmerding "Notes of Change"), detail illus. p. 252, pp. 252-263 (Chad Mandeles, "Grave Counsel"), pp. 309-314 (Thayer Tolles Mickel "Chronology).', 'opening_date': '1992-03-14T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
	date: 1965-
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	(Kennedy Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)1
	date: -1965
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			* <div><!--block-->1There is no record of this painting's provenance prior to the Kennedy Galleries, and the Kennedy Galleries records at the Archives of American Art (A1993-022, box 6) contain no relevant information.&nbsp; It is possible that the canvas appeared in <em>Paintings of the Late W.M. Harnett on Exhibition,</em> held at Earle’s Galleries, Philadelphia, in 1892, as catalog no. 10, <em>A Tribute to Shakespeare</em>.&nbsp;</div>
			
			
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>The Kennedy Quarterly</em> 5:2 (Jan. 1965).
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	Harnett, William Michael, and E. T. Snow. <em>Paintings of the Late W.M. Harnett: On Exhibition, Earle's Galleries</em>. Philadelphia: Earle's Galleries, 1892.
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	Elder, Nika. <em>William Harnett's Curious Objects: Still-Life Painting after the American Civil War. </em>(Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2022).
	page number: 	Mentioned p. 75; Reproduced p. 77.
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	Adams, Henry. <em>What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008.
	page number: 	Reproduced: fig. 11, p. 12
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	Arendsee, M., and M. Steinman-Arendsee. "Take the CAN disability aesthetics tour, at the Cleveland Museum of art." <em>CAN Journa</em>l (Winter 2019/20): 76-87.
	page number: 	Mentioned p. 80
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