id: 166698 accession number: 2008.407 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.407 updated: 2023-04-25 11:42:57.933000 Valmy and Léa, c. 1885–95. Jean Béraud (French, 1849–1935). Brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite; sheet: 36 x 51.7 cm (14 3/16 x 20 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.407 title: Valmy and Léa title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1885–95 creation date earliest: 1885 creation date latest: 1895 current location: creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 20th century technique: brush and brown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite department: Drawings collection: Drawings type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jean Béraud (French, 1849–1935) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 36 x 51.7 cm (14 3/16 x 20 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige wove paper, laid down on cardboard watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: lower center, in black ink: Jean Béraud / [fragments of an additional signature] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Art and the Stage opening date: 1981-05-22T04:00:00 Art and the Stage. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 22-August 16, 1981). 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, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002). title: Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints opening date: 2015-01-25T00:00:00 Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 25-May 17, 2015). title: In Concert! Musical Instruments in Art, 1860-1910 opening date: 2017-03-24T04:00:00 In Concert! Musical Instruments in Art, 1860-1910. Musée des Impressionismes Giverny, Giverny, France (organizer) (March 24-July 2, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: A forerunner to the cabaret, the café-concert was an irresistible subject for artists working in fin-de-siècle Paris. Here, the performers are illuminated by the unnatural glow of gas footlights, while the musicians in the orchestra, seen mostly from behind, are tucked in the shadowy foreground. The neck of the double base extends above the crowd, drawing the viewer’s eye to the climactic can-can. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Breitman, Ellen. Art and the Stage. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981. page number: Referenced: p. 58, Reproduced: pl. 35 url: Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. page number: Mentioned: pp. 112-113, no. 51; Reproduced: p. 113 url: Thomson, Richard. "The Imperatives of Style: Seurat's Drawings, 1886-1891." In Georges Seurat: The Drawings, edited by Jodi Hauptmann. Exh. Cat. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2007. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 182 url: Frank, Frédéric and Belinda Thomson. In Concert!: Musical Instruments in Art 1860-1910. Giverny: Musée des Impressionnismes, 2017. p. 69, 76. page number: Mentioned: p. 69, no. 8; Reproduced: p. 76 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.407/2008.407_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.407/2008.407_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.407/2008.407_full.tif