id:			166680
accession number:	2008.393
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.393
updated:		2025-01-13 13:07:05.973000

Half-length Portrait of a Seated Woman, 1781. Charles-Nicolas Cochin (French, 1715–1790). Black chalk; sheet: 16.5 x 11.4 cm (6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); secondary support: 25.3 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.393

title:				Half-length Portrait of a Seated Woman
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creation date:			1781
creation date earliest:		1781
creation date latest:		1781
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 18th century
technique:	black chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Charles-Nicolas Cochin (French, 1715–1790)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 16.5 x 11.4 cm (6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); Secondary Support: 25.3 x 20.2 cm (9 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
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	description:	beige laid paper, laid down on cream laid paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, lower center, in black chalk: C. N. Cochin f. delin. 1781
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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

	["Collection de M. A. F. . . ." (Focqué or Foché, according to annotated copy, National Gallery of Art, Washington), Hôtel Drouot, Paris (4 May 1906), 15, no. 23, repr.]. Marius Paulme (Lugt 1910, lower left, in black ink); [his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris (13 May 1929), 47, no. 48, pl. 36]. ["The Property of a Lady," Christie's, London (8 December 1976), 32, no. 118, pl. 39]; purchased in 1976.
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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. 19, p. 48-49
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