id:			150176
accession number:	1980.91
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.91
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:46.529000

Classical Landscape, 1779. Pierre Henri de Valenciennes (French, 1750–1819). Black gouache and  brush and gray wash, over black chalk and graphite, heightened with white gouache; sheet: 41.3 x 48.3 cm (16 1/4 x 19 in.); secondary support: 43.6 x 52.1 cm (17 3/16 x 20 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1980.91

title:				Classical Landscape
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creation date:			1779
creation date earliest:		1779
creation date latest:		1779
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	black gouache and  brush and gray wash, over black chalk and graphite, heightened with white gouache
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Pierre Henri de Valenciennes (French, 1750–1819)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 41.3 x 48.3 cm (16 1/4 x 19 in.); Secondary Support: 43.6 x 52.1 cm (17 3/16 x 20 1/2 in.)
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	description:	green laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, lower left, in brown ink: Valencienne Fecit / a Rome. 1779 / 1779

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review: 1980
	opening date:   1981-06-24T04:00:00
	<i>Year in Review: 1980</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

	title:		French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792
	opening date:   1982-02-02T05:00:00
	<i>French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982).

	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:		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:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002).

	title:		Views and Visions: French Landscape Painting from Classicism to Naturalism
	opening date:   2004-09-17T00:00:00
	<i>Views and Visions: French Landscape Painting from Classicism to Naturalism</i>. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA (organizer) (September 17-December 12, 2004).

	title:		Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2014-03-09T00:00:00
	<i>Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Nineteenth Century French and Other Continental Watercolors and Oil Sketches</em>. Shepherd Gallery, New York (Winter 1979).', 'opening_date': '1979-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Exhibition of French Drawings: Neo-Classicism</em>. Heim Gallery, London (February 20 - March 27, 1975).', 'opening_date': '1975-02-20T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Heim Gallery, London)
	date: by 1975-before 1979
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	(Shepherd Gallery, New York)
	date: by 1979
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	(Jean-Pierre Selz, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: after 1979-1980
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1980-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Exhibition of French Drawings: Neo-Classicism</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Heim Gallery, 1975.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: no. 121
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	Rohowsky, Peter S. <em>Nineteenth Century French and Other Continental Watercolors and Oil Sketches</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1979.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: no. 134
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	DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. <em>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 120-121, p. 289, no. 46; Reproduced: p. 121
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	Marlais, Michael, John Varriano, and Wendy M. Watson. <em>Valenciennes, Daubigny, and the Origins of French Landscape Painting</em>. Exh. Cat. South Hadley, MA: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 2004.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 30
	url:		

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