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accession number:	2008.368
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A Funeral , c. mid-1870s-early 1880s. Jean-Paul Laurens (French, 1838-1921). Charcoal and brush and black and brown ink, with stumping and scratching away; sheet: 40.1 x 29 cm (15 13/16 x 11 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.368

title:				A Funeral 
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creation date:			c. mid-1870s-early 1880s
creation date earliest:		1875
creation date latest:		1885
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	charcoal and brush and black and brown ink, with stumping and scratching away
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Jean-Paul Laurens (French, 1838-1921)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 40.1 x 29 cm (15 13/16 x 11 7/16 in.)
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	description:	beige wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, lower right, in black ink: J Paul Laurens; formerly inscribed in graphite at lower right of mount:  132 (mount destroyed)
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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 (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

	[Galerie de la Scala, Paris, 1979 (according to Shepherd Gallery records)]; [Shepherd Gallery, New York]; purchased in 1979; estate of Muriel  Butkin
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wall description: 
The macabre subject matter of A Funeral is typical of Jean-Paul Laurens, whose interest in depicting cadavers and coffins earned him the nickname "the painter of the dead." Laurens was also attracted to subjects from church history, and, here, the crosier leaning against the door behind the coffin indicates the deceased was a bishop. Highly finished drawings like this one are rare in Laurens's production. His technique of covering the surface with a variety of media and scratching away for highlights is quite similar to the one used by another artist in the exhibition-Alexandre Bida, in his Café at Constantinople [cat. no. 34]. Laurens utilized the technique effectively in this gloomy scene, where the glowing candle flame casts long shadows and feebly illuminates the columns receding into darkness on the left.
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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. 52, p. 114-115, Reproduced: p. 115
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