id:			148001
accession number:	1974.93
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.93
updated:		2025-05-08 11:22:02.491000

Woman in Front of a Fireplace, c. 1805–7. Louis Léopold Boilly (French, 1761–1845). Black chalk and gray wash heightened with white chalk, squared in black chalk, on blue wove paper; sheet: 46 x 37 cm (18 1/8 x 14 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1974.93

title:				Woman in Front of a Fireplace
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creation date:			c. 1805–7
creation date earliest:		1805
creation date latest:		1807
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	France, early 19th Century
technique:	black chalk and gray wash heightened with white chalk, squared in black chalk, on blue wove paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: Harrisse 948; Bréton and Zuber 658 D

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CREATORS

* Louis Léopold Boilly (French, 1761–1845)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 46 x 37 cm (18 1/8 x 14 9/16 in.)
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	description:	blue wove paper
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1974
	opening date:   1975-03-11T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1974</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).

	title:		Treasures on Paper
	opening date:   1988-05-10T04:00:00
	<i>Treasures on Paper</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-July 24, 1988).

	title:		Rococo, Revolution, Restoration
	opening date:   1989-07-11T04:00:00
	<i>Rococo, Revolution, Restoration</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).

	title:		French Drawings from the Collection
	opening date:   1994-12-13T05:00:00
	<i>French Drawings from the Collection</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

	title:		Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2023-01-19T05:00:00
	<i>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Henri-Auguste-César Serrur [1794–1865], Paris
	date: after 1807-1865
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	(his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, January 15, 1866, no. 149)
	date: 1866
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	Henri Binder
	date: 1898
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	(his sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 5, 1936, no. 10)
	date: 1936
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	Private collection, Paris
	date: after 1936-1972
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	(sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 12, 1972, no. 16)
	date: 1972
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	(Galerie Nathan, Zurich, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: ?-1974
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1974-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Atelier de Serrur, peintre d’histoire: Ses œuvres et sa collection particulière</em>. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1866.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 22, no. 149
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	Harrisse, Henry. <em>L.-L. Boilly, peintre, dessinateur et lithographe: Sa vie et son œuvre, 1761–1845</em>. Paris: Société de Propagation des Livres d’art, 1898.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 169, no. 948
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	<em>Catalogue des tableaux anciens, pastels, dessins anciens </em>[. . .] <em>provenant de la collection de M. B. </em>Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1936.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 5, no. 10
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	<em>Dessins et tableaux anciens</em>. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1972.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 16; Reproduced: cover
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	Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1974." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 62, no. 3 (1975): 62-102.
	page number: 	p. 99 no. 58, illus. p. 78.
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25152580

	Scottez-De Wambrechies, Annie and Sylvain Laveissière. <em>Boilly, 1761–1845: Un Grand Peintre français de la Révolution à la Restauration</em>. Exh. cat. Lille: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 1989.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 108
	url:		

	Bréton, Étienne and Pascal Zuber. <em>Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761–1845: Le Peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe</em>, 2:642 (ill.), 918, no. 658 D. Paris: Arthena, 2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned: vol. 2, pp. 642, 918, no. 658 D; Reproduced: p. 642
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