id:			166703
accession number:	2008.411
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2008.411
updated:		2024-03-26 02:01:12.545000

The Suburbs: Stock Raiser and Captain, probably 1859–1860. Paul Gavarni (French, 1804–1866). Watercolor (mixed with white gouache in places) over graphite, heightened with white gouache; sheet: 29.4 x 21 cm (11 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.); secondary support: 38 x 29.4 cm (14 15/16 x 11 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.411

title:				The Suburbs: Stock Raiser and Captain
title in original language:	
series:				
series in original language:	
creation date:			probably 1859–1860
creation date earliest:		1859
creation date latest:		1860
current location:		
creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
copyright:			

---

culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	watercolor (mixed with white gouache in places) over graphite, heightened with white gouache
department:	Drawings
collection:	Drawings
type:		Drawing
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: 

---

CREATORS

* Paul Gavarni (French, 1804–1866)  - artist
Gavarni captured the private lives of Parisians in the over 4,000 illustrations he produced for journals and magazines.
---

measurements: Sheet: 29.4 x 21 cm (11 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Secondary Support: 38 x 29.4 cm (14 15/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	

support materials:

	description:	cream wove paper, discolored
	watermarks:	
			* along left margin: J Whatman / 1811
			

inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, lower right, in gray wash: Gavarni; by artist, lower left, in gray wash: Banlieue. Nourrisseur et Capitaine; upper right, in graphite: [5?]7; verso, lower right, in graphite: ntb 2; lower right, in red crayon: No 81 [upside down, underlined]
	translation:	
	remark:		

---

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).

---

LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Old Master Drawings and French Drawings of the 19th Century</em>, London (Summer 1975).', 'opening_date': '1975-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Non-Dissenters: Fifth Exhibition Marking Our Tenth Anniversary.</em> Shepherd Gallery, New York (November 1-December 31, 1976).', 'opening_date': '1976-11-01T00:00:00'}

---

PROVENANCE

	Pierre-Jules Hetzel [1814-1886], Paris
	date: ?-1884
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->Collector mark [not in Lugt], verso, lower right, in red ink [upside down]: <em>OEUVRES INEDITES DE GAVARNI HETZEL &amp; Cie</em>.</div>
			
			
	citations: 	


	(Hotel Drouot, Hetzel sale, Paris, 26 May 26, 1884, no. 45)
	date: 1884
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->For 450 francs, according to annotated copy in the Bibliothèque d'Art et d'Archéologie, Jacques Doucet, Paris.</div>
			
			
	citations: 	


	(Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 3, 1925, no. 23)
	date: 1925
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	(Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London)
	date: By 1975
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	(Paris art market, sold to Shepherd Gallery, New York)
	date: 1976
	footnotes: 	
			
			* <div><!--block-->According to Shepherd Gallery records.</div>
			
			
	citations: 	


	(Shepherd Gallery, New York, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH)
	date: 1976
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1976-2008
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2008-
	footnotes: 	
	citations: 	


---

fun fact:


digital description:


wall description:

---

RELATED WORKS

---

CITATIONS

	Hotel Drouot, Paris. <em>Cent trente-quatre aquarelles importantes de Gavarni</em>. May 24, 1884. Lot. 45
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 45
	url:		

	Lemoisne, Paul-André.<em> Gavarni, peintre et lithographe</em>. Paris: H. Floury, 1924.
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 208, 210
	url:		

	Hotel Drouot, Paris. <em>Tableaux Modernes, Aquarelles, Dessins, Pastels, Gravures</em>. December 3, 1925. Lot 23.
	page number: 	Mentioned: no. 23
	url:		

	Bunzl, Yvonne Tan. <em>Old Master Drawings and French Drawings of the 19th Century</em>. London: Correspondence C/o Barclays Bank, 1975.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. no. 40; Reproduced: pl. 38
	url:		

	Shepherd Gallery. <em>Non-Dissenters: One Hundred and Seventy French Nineteenth Century Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors</em>. Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1976.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 88
	url:		

	Masheck, Joseph, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: New York," <em>Burlington Magazine </em>119, no. 889 (April 1977), 307-308.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 308; Reproduced:  fig. 116, p. 309
	url:		

	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: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 39, p. 88-89
	url:		

---

IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.411/2008.411_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.411/2008.411_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2008.411/2008.411_full.tif