id: 166683 accession number: 2008.396 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.396 updated: 2023-03-22 03:04:30.412000 Seated Woman with a Cat, c. 1776. Jean-Michel the Younger Moreau (French, 1741–1814). Brush and gray and black wash; sheet: 18.6 x 15.8 cm (7 5/16 x 6 1/4 in.); tertiary support: 27.5 x 23.5 cm (10 13/16 x 9 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.396 title: Seated Woman with a Cat title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1776 creation date earliest: 1771 creation date latest: 1781 current location: creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 18th century technique: brush and gray and black wash department: Drawings collection: Drawings type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean-Michel the Younger Moreau (French, 1741–1814) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 18.6 x 15.8 cm (7 5/16 x 6 1/4 in.); Tertiary Support: 27.5 x 23.5 cm (10 13/16 x 9 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: brown-yellow laid paper, laid down on beige laid paper, mounted to a tertiary support of beige board faced with blue paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin opening date: 2001-08-26T00:00:00 French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Philippe Burty, Tableaux et dessins de l'école française, principalement du XVIIIe siècle, tirés de collections d'amateurs, Galerie Francis Petit, Paris (1860), 58, no. 283;

Dessins de maîtres anciens, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris (1879), no. 621 (exh. cat.: Catalogue descriptif des dessins de Maîtres Anciens exposés à l'École des Beaux-Arts [Paris: Georges Chamerot, 1879], 150, no. 62). --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Moreau le jeune was an important draftsman, printmaker, and book illustrator who was championed by the celebrated French writers of the 19th century Edmond (1822-1896) and Jules (1830-1870) de Goncourt, who also owned this drawing (the collector's stamp bearing their name can be seen in the lower left corner of the sheet). The drawing may represent a relative of the 18th-century French poet Louis Gresset (1709-1777). A portrait drawing by Moreau le jeune of Gresset-now at the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame-has many similarities to this one. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Burty, Philippe. Catalogue de tableaux et dessins de l'école française, principalement du XVIIIe siècle, tirés de collections d'amateurs, et exposés au profit de la caisse de secours des artistes, peintres, sculpteurs, architectes et dessinateurs. Paris: [Impr. de J. Claye], 1860. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 283, p. 58 url: Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 16, p. 43-44 url: École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-arts (France), Charles Ephrussi, and Gustave Dreyfus. Catalogue Descriptif Des Dessins De Maîtres Anciens Exposés À L'école Des Beaux-Arts Mai-Juin 1879. 2e Éd ed. Paris: Typ. G. Chamerot, 1879. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 62, p. 150 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.396/2008.396_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.396/2008.396_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.396/2008.396_full.tif