id: 146928 accession number: 1972.33 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1972.33 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:32.355000 A Farmhouse Interior with a Boy at a Table, c. 1846. Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803–1860). Black chalk heightened with white chalk; sheet: 43.3 x 53.3 cm (17 1/16 x 21 in.); secondary support: 49.3 x 59.6 cm (19 7/16 x 23 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, L. E. Holden Fund 1972.33 title: A Farmhouse Interior with a Boy at a Table title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1846 creation date earliest: 1841 creation date latest: 1851 current location: creditline: L. E. Holden Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: black chalk heightened with white chalk department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (French, 1803–1860) - artist Decamps was born into a bourgeois family and as a young boy sent by his father to the Picardian countryside to experience the realities of peasant life. These formative years not only nurtured his interest for nature but also directed him toward an artistic career. He returned to Paris in 1816 and studied briefly with Étienne Bouhot (1780-1862), who painted architectural scenes. In 1818, Decamps joined the studio of Alexandre-Denis Abel de Pujol (1785-1861), and copied (Dutch) Old Master paintings in the Louvre. Unimpressed with his academic education, Decamps had become an independent artist by 1820. He earned an income and a reputation with satirical lithographs and anecdotal scenes that were popular with collectors. Decamps's Salon debut occurred in 1827, and the following year he became one of the first distinguished European artists to travel to Asia Minor and North Africa. He returned to Paris with countless drawings and sketches that would serve him for the rest of his career and quickly became one of the leading orientalist painters. He also renewed his earlier interest in lithography and published an album of his hunting scenes. In 1835, he made a journey to Italy, where he studied the works of Raphael (1485-1520) and Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665). Upon his return, he began painting biblical scenes, set against convincing depictions of Near Eastern landscapes, based on his earlier travels. He went to the forest of Fontainebleau in 1843-44 and befriended Dupré (q.v.). Decamps would revisit Fontainebleau ten years later and purchased a house there in 1857. He was one of the most successful and famous artists of this time. His patrons included the Marquis Mason, the Barons de Rothschild, and the Duc d'Orléans. He was elected to the Salon Jury in 1851 and kept this position until 1853. In 1855, at the Paris Exposition Universelle, his works were featured in a retrospective exhibition, along with those of Delacroix (q.v.) and Ingres (q.v.). Although he was a critically acclaimed and financially successful artist during his lifetime, Decamps's reputation quickly waned after his death in 1860. --- measurements: Sheet: 43.3 x 53.3 cm (17 1/16 x 21 in.); Secondary Support: 49.3 x 59.6 cm (19 7/16 x 23 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: blue laid paper hinged to blue laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower right, in graphite: GD ; SECONDARY SUPPORT, lower right, stamped in blue ink: Vente DECAMPS ; VERSO, lower right, in graphite: 5. [circled and upsidedown] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1972 opening date: 1973-02-27T05:00:00 Year in Review: 1972. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-March 18, 1973). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'CMA, 17th and 18th Century Genre and French Drawings (May 31-Aug. 19, 1979).', 'opening_date': '1979-05-31T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, "Gallery J--Drawings" (July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976?) (is among a list of drawings in Gallery J, this list being found at the end of a list of prints that were in other galleries from July 29, 1975-Feb. 1976 for a little show called "The Vocabulary of Prints"--see exhs. file).', 'opening_date': '1975-07-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA, The Year in Review for 1972 (Feb. 27-Mar. 18, 1973), cma Bulletin 60 (1973), p. 110 no. 153.', 'opening_date': '1973-02-27T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE [Seiferheld and Co.] date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.33/1972.33_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.33/1972.33_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1972.33/1972.33_full.tif