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accession number:	2008.345
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.345
updated:		2025-03-05 12:07:41.477000

An Insect Ball, 1835. Jean-Jacques Grandville (French, 1803–1847). Pen and black ink with watercolor; sheet: 12.5 x 21.3 cm (4 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin, 2008.345

title:				An Insect Ball
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creation date:			1835
creation date earliest:		1835
creation date latest:		1835
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	pen and black ink with watercolor
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Jean-Jacques Grandville (French, 1803–1847)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 12.5 x 21.3 cm (4 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
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	description:	beige wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, lower left, in black ink: J. J. Grandville 1835; verso, upper right, in graphite: No 33 [underlined]; upper right, in graphite: 8
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin
	opening date:   2001-08-26T00:00:00
	<i>French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).

	title:		Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art
	opening date:   2024-05-04T04:00:00
	<i>Fairy Tales and Fables: Illustration and Storytelling in Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 4-September 8, 2024).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	[Sotheby-Parke-Bernet, London (4 December 1975), no. 390, repr.]. [Paris art market]; [Galerie Arnoldi-Livie, Munich]; purchased in 1977.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. <em>French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin</em>. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 30, p. 70-71
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