id:			166648
accession number:	2008.368
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.368
updated:		2025-02-09 06:28:25.523000

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, 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

	[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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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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