id: 148001
accession number: 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
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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
find spot:
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, Cleveland, OH (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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citations:
(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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citations:
(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
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
url:
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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