id: 148001
accession number: 1974.93
share license status: CC0
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.93
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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
current location: 101B Prints & Drawings
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
Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975).
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: Rococo, Revolution, Restoration
opening date: 1989-07-11T04:00:00
Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. 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
French Drawings from the Collection. 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: 2023-01-20T05:00:00
Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 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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fun fact:
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Marie-Élisabeth Godard d’Aucourt de Saint-Just, shown here, belonged to a wealthy French shipbuilding family. Louis Léopold Boilly probably created this drawing to present for approval the preliminary composition of d’Aucourt’s painted portrait. The grid overlaying the drawing suggests a direct transfer to canvas; the image changed dramatically in the painting, where d’Aucourt appears in a grotto, unoccupied. That composition aligned with gender norms at the time that placed women in the natural world rather than the cultural sphere. Perhaps still interested in the drawing’s costume and interior, Boilly later reused them in a sheet depicting a working-class milliner, or hatmaker.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Atelier de Serrur, peintre d’histoire: Ses œuvres et sa collection particulière. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1866.
page number: Mentioned: p. 22, no. 149
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Harrisse, Henry. L.-L. Boilly, peintre, dessinateur et lithographe: Sa vie et son œuvre, 1761–1845. Paris: Société de Propagation des Livres d’art, 1898.
page number: Mentioned: p. 169, no. 948
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Catalogue des tableaux anciens, pastels, dessins anciens [. . .] provenant de la collection de M. B. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1936.
page number: Mentioned: p. 5, no. 10
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Dessins et tableaux anciens. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1972.
page number: Mentioned: no. 16; Reproduced: cover
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Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1974." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 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. Boilly, 1761–1845: Un Grand Peintre français de la Révolution à la Restauration. Exh. cat. Lille: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 1989.
page number: Mentioned: p. 108
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Bréton, Étienne and Pascal Zuber. Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761–1845: Le Peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe, 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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IMAGES
web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.93/1974.93_web.jpg
print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.93/1974.93_print.jpg
full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.93/1974.93_full.tif