id:			166668
accession number:	2008.382
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.382
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Two Standing Figures (Study for A Game of Billiards), c. 1807. Louis Léopold Boilly (French, 1761–1845). Black chalk with gray and brown-black chalk, with stumping, framing lines in brown-black chalk; sheet: 31.2 x 26.6 cm (12 5/16 x 10 1/2 in.); overall: 31.2 x 27.3 cm (12 5/16 x 10 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.382

title:				Two Standing Figures (Study for A Game of Billiards)
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creation date:			c. 1807
creation date earliest:		1802
creation date latest:		1812
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	black chalk with gray and brown-black chalk, with stumping, framing lines in brown-black chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Louis Léopold Boilly (French, 1761–1845)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 31.2 x 26.6 cm (12 5/16 x 10 1/2 in.); Overall: 31.2 x 27.3 cm (12 5/16 x 10 3/4 in.)
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	description:	brown (wove?) paper possibly discolored from blue, laid down on beige laid paper
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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

* {'description': 'Non-Dissenters: Fifth Exhibition Marking Our Tenth Anniversary, Shepherd Gallery, New York (1976), no. 15, repr.', 'opening_date': '1976-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	[Christie's, London (6 July 1976), no. 100, pl. 26]; [Shepherd Gallery, New York]; purchased in 1976.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Shepherd Gallery. <em>Non-Dissenters : One Hundred and Seventy French Nineteenth Century Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors</em>. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1976.
	page number: 	Referenced: cat. no. 15, Reproduced.
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	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. 27, p. 64-65, Reproduced: p. 65
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IMAGES

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