id:			166657
accession number:	2008.374
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Aristomenes Mourning the Death of Socrates from the Bewitchment of Meroë (from Book 1 of Apuleius, "The Golden Ass"), 1795. Antoine-Denis Chaudet (French, 1763–1810). Brush and black and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite; sheet: 27.9 x 21.3 cm (11 x 8 3/8 in.); image: 19.8 x 10.3 cm (7 13/16 x 4 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.374

title:				Aristomenes Mourning the Death of Socrates from the Bewitchment of Meroë (from Book 1 of Apuleius, "The Golden Ass")
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creation date:			1795
creation date earliest:		1795
creation date latest:		1795
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	brush and black and gray wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Antoine-Denis Chaudet (French, 1763–1810)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 27.9 x 21.3 cm (11 x 8 3/8 in.); Image: 19.8 x 10.3 cm (7 13/16 x 4 1/16 in.)
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	description:	light gray wove paper
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	inscription:	signed, lower left, in black ink: Chaudet del. 1795.; by artist, upper left, in black ink: Apulée, Metam. v.1; by artist, upper right, in black ink: II; by artist, lower center, in black ink: Aristomene pleure Socrate expirant par l'effet des ma= / léfices de Meroé.; upper right, in graphite: A; verso, upper left, in graphite: [buza?] [underlined] / [Nello?]; upper center, in graphite: 123 / b [circled] 
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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

	Probably Marie Joseph François Mahérault; [probably his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (27-29 May 1880), 9, as part of lot no. 19: "Dix dessins pour illustrer l'Ane d'or d'Apulée. Ces dessins sont d'une remarquable finesse. Signés et datés 1795. Sépia et encre de Chine rehaussées de blanc."]. "A late nineteenth-century French collection" (according to Baskett and Day, London). [Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener, Paris]; purchased in 1986.
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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. 21, p.52-53
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IMAGES

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