id: 166685 accession number: 2008.398 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.398 updated: 2023-03-22 03:04:30.427000 Saddled Arabian Horse in Courtyard, 1820. Carle Vernet (French, 1758–1836). Pen and brown ink, brown wash, with gray wash, over black chalk or crayon, heightened with white gouache and white chalk; sheet: 15.8 x 24.2 cm (6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.); with mount: 22.3 x 30.7 cm (8 3/4 x 12 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.398 title: Saddled Arabian Horse in Courtyard title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1820 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1820 current location: creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: pen and brown ink, brown wash, with gray wash, over black chalk or crayon, heightened with white gouache and white chalk department: Drawings collection: Drawings type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Carle Vernet (French, 1758–1836) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 15.8 x 24.2 cm (6 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.); With mount: 22.3 x 30.7 cm (8 3/4 x 12 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: brown wove paper, perimeter mounted to cardboard, with decorative overmat (19th century?) watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, lower left, in brown ink: Carle Vernet. 1820.; verso of secondary support, upper right, in graphite: super duper; lower center, in graphite: russian stamp [sideways] / [arrow]; lower right, in graphite: #6 [circled]. translation: remark: --- 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 * Recent Acquisitions: 19th Century European Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, and Sculpture, Shepherd Gallery, New York (1973), no cat.;

Art for Collectors, Cleveland Museum of Art (1974), no. 272, no cat. --- PROVENANCE Possibly in a Russian collection (three Russian postage stamps, likely early 20th century [a fourth is missing], are affixed at the center of each edge of the back of the mount).a [Edward Pawlin, New York (according to Shepherd Gallery)]; [purchased in 1973 by Shepherd Gallery, New York]. [Paul Drey Gallery, New York (according to Butkin records and old cma exhibition label)]; purchased in 1974. date: footnotes: citations: a. Thanks to Alexander Gulkin for confirming the stamps' origins and dating them. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: While his father, Joseph, was known for marine paintings, and his son, Horace, became a celebrated Romantic artist, Carle Vernet excelled in representing battles and animals, especially horses. Vernet was an expert rider himself, and in his pictures he precisely described various breeds and horse dressings. Although the artist never traveled further from France than Italy, his drawing of an Arabian horse contains elements that make it seem as if he observed the animal in its native environment. He documented the unique saddle and included exotic architecture in the background and palm trees at the right. Vernet was able to study exotic breeds and costumes in Paris, both in the military corps and at the horse races. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS 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: Referenced: cat. no. 28, p 66-67, Reproduced: p. 67 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.398/2008.398_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.398/2008.398_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.398/2008.398_full.tif