id:			166666
accession number:	2008.380
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.380
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:12.300000

View of  the Château of Pierrefonds, c. 1870. François-Louis Français (French, 1814–1897). Pen and black ink, brush and black and gray wash, and graphite, heightened with white gouache; sheet: 42.2 x 56.2 cm (16 5/8 x 22 1/8 in.); matted: 54.6 x 67.3 cm (21 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.380

title:				View of  the Château of Pierrefonds
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creation date:			c. 1870
creation date earliest:		1865
creation date latest:		1875
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	pen and black ink, brush and black and gray wash, and graphite, heightened with white gouache
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* François-Louis Français (French, 1814–1897)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 42.2 x 56.2 cm (16 5/8 x 22 1/8 in.); Matted: 54.6 x 67.3 cm (21 1/2 x 26 1/2 in.)
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	description:	green-beige laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	verso, center, in graphite: 12 [underlined]; center right, in graphite: Chateau de Pierrefonds / Clisson [crossed out] 
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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

	Estate of the artist (estate stamp [Lugt 944], lower right, in black ink); [Français studio sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris (14-15 March 1898), no. 136 (sold for 275 francs, according to annotated copy in Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles)]. [Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener, Paris]; purchased in 1979.
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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. 43, p. 96-97
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