id: 147570
accession number: 1973.7
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The Falconer, c. 1864. Eugène Fromentin (French, 1820–1876). Watercolor with pen and brown ink; sheet: 31.4 x 22.9 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1973.7
title: The Falconer
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series:
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creation date: c. 1864
creation date earliest: 1859
creation date latest: 1869
current location:
creditline: Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
copyright:
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: watercolor with pen and brown ink
department: Drawings
collection: DR - French
type: Drawing
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catalogue raisonne:
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CREATORS
* Eugène Fromentin (French, 1820–1876) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 31.4 x 22.9 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.)
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support materials:
description: cream wove paper
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inscription: inscribed, lower right, in brown ink: E.F.
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remark:
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review: 1973
opening date: 1974-01-30T05:00:00
Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).
title: Animals as Romantic Icons in French Art
opening date: 1986-04-06T04:00:00
Animals as Romantic Icons in French Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 6-July 27, 1986).
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).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
(Hotel Drouot, Paris, Fromentin sale, Feb. 3, 1877, no. 152)
date: 1877
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Possibly the CMA drawing.
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Private Collection, New York
date: ?-?
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citations:
(Wildenstein & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
date: ?-1973
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 1973-
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Hotel Drouot, Paris. Catalogue de la vente qui aura lieu par suite du décès de Eug. Fromentin: ses tableaux, études, aquarelles, dessins et croquis. February 3, 1877. Lot 152.
page number: Mentioned: no. 152
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"The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78.
page number: Mentioned: p. 75; Reproduced: p. 47, no. 75
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25152513
Stevens, Mary Anne. The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse: the Allure of North Africa and the Near East. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1984.
page number: Mentioned: p. 135
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Thompson, James, and Barbara Wright. La vie et l'œuvre d'Eugène Fromentin. Paris: ACR Édition, 1987.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 196
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Harrison, Jefferson C. The Chrysler Museum: Handbook of the European and American Collections; Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings. Norfolk, Va.: Chrysler Museum of Art, 1991.
page number: Mentioned: p. 112
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Cable, Patrick Shaw. "From North Africa to the Black Sea: Nineteenth-Century French Orientalist Drawings." Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 7 (2002): 104-25.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 111, 113-115, 123; Reproduced: p. 114, fig. 9
url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20079721
Thompson, James, and Barbara Wright. Eugène Fromentin, 1820-1876: visions d'Algérie et d'Egypte. Paris: ACR Édition, 2008.
page number: Mentioned: p. 242; Reproduced: p. 220
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IMAGES
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