id:			166679
accession number:	2008.392
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.392
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Head of a Man, 1886. Alphonse Legros (French, 1837–1911). Metalpoint; sheet: 31.5 x 23 cm (12 3/8 x 9 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.392

title:				Head of a Man
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			1886
creation date earliest:		1886
creation date latest:		1886
current location:		
creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
copyright:			

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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	metalpoint
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: 

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CREATORS

* Alphonse Legros (French, 1837–1911)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 31.5 x 23 cm (12 3/8 x 9 1/16 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	white clay-coated board, laid down on cardboard, overmatted with cardboard mount
	watermarks:	

inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, upper right, in metalpoint: A. Legros [underlined] / 1886 (according to Butkin records, above the preceding there is an inscription, currently covered by the mount, that reads "à mon ami F. W. Burton"); verso of secondary support, lower left, in graphite: Le gros [sideways]
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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': '<em>T. Edward Hanley Collection</em>. Philadelphia Museum of Art (1957).', 'opening_date': '1957-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley</em>, Gallery of Modern Art, New York (January 3 - March 12, 1967); Philadelphia Museum of Art (April 6 - May 28, 1967); Denver Art Museum (February 22 - April 30, 1968).', 'opening_date': '1967-01-03T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>', 'opening_date': None}

* {'description': 'Visages du dix-neuvième siècle</em>, Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener, Paris (December 1 - 15, 1977).', 'opening_date': '1977-12-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	T. Edward Hanley, Bradford, PA
	date: by 1957-before 1967
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->According to old exhibition labels, now removed.</div>
			
			
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	Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1977-2008
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2008-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Selections from the Collection of Dr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hanley. </em>Exh. Cat. New York: Gallery of Modern Art, 1967.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 63
	url:		

	<em>Visages du dix-neuvième siècle</em>. Exh. Cat. Paris: Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener, 1977.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: no. 25
	url:		

	Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. <em>French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin</em>. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 118-19, 143, no. 54; Reproduced: p. 119
	url:		

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IMAGES

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