id:			161273
accession number:	1999.48
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.48
updated:		2024-03-26 02:00:41.323000

Head of Caracalla, c. 1768. Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725–1805). Red chalk on cream laid paper; sheet: 38.8 x 30.3 cm (15 1/4 x 11 15/16 in.); secondary support: 45.6 x 37.1 cm (17 15/16 x 14 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1999.48

title:				Head of Caracalla
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creation date:			c. 1768
creation date earliest:		1763
creation date latest:		1773
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	Red chalk on cream laid paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725–1805)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 38.8 x 30.3 cm (15 1/4 x 11 15/16 in.); Secondary Support: 45.6 x 37.1 cm (17 15/16 x 14 5/8 in.)
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	description:	cream(3) laid paper, perimeter mounted to a false margin of cream(2) board
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	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:		Greuze, The Draftsman
	opening date:   2002-09-10T00:00:00
	<i>Greuze, The Draftsman</i>. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (September 10-December 1, 2002).

	title:		Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings
	opening date:   2016-07-16T04:00:00
	<i>Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	M. and Mme. Jules Porges, Paris
	date: ?-?
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	Comtesse Rosalie de Fitz-James [1862-1923], Paris
	date: ?-?
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	(William H. Schab Gallery, NY)
	date: ?-?
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	Julian Raskin, Scarsdale, NY, by descent to his family
	date: 1956-?
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	(Spink-Leger Pictures, London, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1999
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1999-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Munhall, Edgar and Joseph Focarino. <em>Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1725-1805</em>. Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 1976.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 148, under no. 70
	url:		

	Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Contemporary German Painting Acquired by CMA,” June 9, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
	page number: 	
	url:		https://archive.org/details/cmapr4262

	"A Selection of 1999 Museum Acquisitions." <em>Apollo</em> 150 (December 1999).
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 33
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	Munhall, Edgar. <em>Greuze the Draftsman</em>. New York: Frick Collection, in association with Merrell, 2002.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 191-93, no. 67
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	Poivet, Clémence, and Annick Lemoine. <em>Greuze et l'affaire du Septime Sévère</em>. Paris: Somogy, 2005.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 47
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	Wood, Susan. "Caracalla and the French Revolution: A Roman Tyrant in Eighteenth-Century Iconography." <em>Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome</em> 55 (2010).
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 309; reproduced: p. 300
	url:		https://www.jstor.org/stable/41419697

	Kahng, Eik. <em>Delacroix and the Matter of Finish</em>. Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, in association with Yale University Press, 2013.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 25
	url:		

	Prat, Louis-Antoine. <em>Le dessin français au XVIIIe siècle.</em> Paris: Louvre éditions: Somogy, 2017.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 445, no. 908
	url:		

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