id:			166634
accession number:	2008.355
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.355
updated:		2025-02-09 06:28:18.240000

The Moscow Tavern, c. 1773. Jean Baptiste Le Prince (French, 1734–1781). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash on white laid paper; sheet: 19.5 x 24.2 cm (7 11/16 x 9 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.355

title:				The Moscow Tavern
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creation date:			c. 1773
creation date earliest:		1768
creation date latest:		1778
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	Pen and brown ink and brush and brown and gray wash on white laid paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Jean Baptiste Le Prince (French, 1734–1781)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 19.5 x 24.2 cm (7 11/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
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	description:	beige laid paper, laid down on multi-ply board overmounted with decorative borders, framing lines in brown ink
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	on overmount, lower center, in brown ink: vue prise De [la Coup?] [illegible] R[illegible]; verso of secondary support, upper left, in graphite: 836 [underlined]; upper left, in graphite: 603 / xl; lower center, in graphite: 65000 [r?][r underlined] Dessin avec la / gravure; lower left, in graphite: Leprince [underlined]; lower right, in graphite: cl 3419; lower center, in graphite: Cabaret de Moscou
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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).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	[Christie's, London (9 December 1975), no. 78]; purchased in 1975.
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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: 	Referenced: cat. no. 14, p. 38-39, Reproduced: p. 39
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