id: 150501 accession number: 1981.58 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1981.58 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:47.846000 The Departure of Jacob, c. 1755. François Boucher (French, 1703–1770). Pen and brown-black ink, brown ink wash, and red chalk wash, with black chalk on cream laid paper; sheet: 34.8 x 23.1 cm (13 11/16 x 9 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds 1981.58 title: The Departure of Jacob title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1755 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1760 current location: creditline: Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: Pen and brown-black ink, brown ink wash, and red chalk wash, with black chalk on cream laid paper department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * François Boucher (French, 1703–1770) - artist French Rococo artist who epitomizes the frivolous and elegant court life of France in the mid-18th century. During his early career he was closely associated with Watteau, many of whose paintings he engraved. Boucher was a successful and incredibly prolific artistic who had a major impact on both fine and decorative art of the 18th century. He is particularly noted for having reinvented the genre of the pastoral, creating images of shepherds and shepherdesses as sentimental lovers that was taken up in a variety of medium. Boucher's sketchy manner of painting helped to promote painterliness as an end in itself. This trend dominated French painting until the emergence of Neoclassicism, when the tides of criticism turned against Boucher and his followers. --- measurements: Sheet: 34.8 x 23.1 cm (13 11/16 x 9 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: cream(3) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: ON THREE SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECES OF PAPER (now removed and in departmental file), inscribed in black ink: T[illegible] / Dessin à la[illegible] / Boucher - [illegible] / chez Paulme [illegible] 19[illegible] / [illegible] ; printed in black ink: THOS [S superscript] AGNEW & SONS LTD [TD superscript] / Nº 44133 / LONDON, / 43 OLD BOND STREET / PICCADILLY, W1X 4BA ; printed in black ink: Place de la Borde, Nº 2, près St [t superscript]-Augustin / ALEXANDRE / JOUANEST / DOREUR / Fabricant de bordures dorées / pour tableaux, estampes, / glaces, gouaches et des- / sins, et se charge de / l'encadrement. / A PARIS. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792 opening date: 1982-02-02T05:00:00 French Prints and Drawings in the Age of the Bourbons, 1589-1792. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 2-May 16, 1982). title: The Year in Review for 1981 opening date: 1982-02-17T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1981. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 17-March 21, 1982). 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: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 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: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00 Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). title: Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings opening date: 2016-07-16T04:00:00 Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Master Drawings. Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., London (November 15 - December 22, 1977).', 'opening_date': '1977-11-15T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (possibly sold, Drouot, Paris, May 3-5, 1858, no. 48, no. 630) date: footnotes: *
As "Le Pâtre, sa Famille et son Troupeau au repos, beau dessin à l'encre de Chine lavé au bistre."
citations: (Marius Paulme [1863-1928; Lugt 1910], Paris) date: 1905 footnotes: *
According to Agnew's; label from an old backing in CMA files confirms Paulme provenance.
citations: Mme D., Paris date: ?-? footnotes: *
According to Ananoff/Wildenstein 1976.
citations: (Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd., London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: by 1977-1981 footnotes: *
Inventory no. 44133 on label.
citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Ananoff, Alexandre. François Boucher. Lausanne: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1976. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: vol. I, pp. 171-172, under no. 34 url: Master Drawings. London: Thos. Agnew & Sons Ltd., 1977. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 32 url: "The Year in Review for 1981." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (February 1982): 41-80. page number: Mentioned: pp. 41, 80; Reproduced: p. 49 url: Goldfarb, Hilliard T. "Boucher's Pastoral Scene with Family at Rest and the Image of the Pastoral in Eighteenth-Century France." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art (March 1984): 82-89. page number: Mentioned and reproduce: pp. 82-89 url: Laing, Alastair. "Boucher et la pastorale peinte." Revue de l'art 73 (1986): 55-64. page number: Mentioned: p. 61 n. 3 url: Dessins français des XVIIIe et XIXe siècles du Musée de Picardie. Exh. Cat. Amiens: Musée de Picardie, 1997. page number: Mentioned: p. 50, under no. 1 url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 10, pp. 102-103, 288, no. 37; Reproduced: p. 103 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.58/1981.58_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.58/1981.58_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1981.58/1981.58_full.tif