id:			166861
accession number:	2009.11.4
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.11.4
updated:		2025-06-27 11:13:15.437000

Design for a Hand Mirror, c. 1900–1902. Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833–1914). Watercolor and black ink with graphite; sheet: 18 x 13.8 cm (7 1/16 x 5 7/16 in.); framed: 62 x 45 cm (24 7/16 x 17 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 2009.11.4

title:				Design for a Hand Mirror
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creation date:			c. 1900–1902
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1902
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	France, 20th century
technique:	watercolor and black ink with graphite
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833–1914)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 18 x 13.8 cm (7 1/16 x 5 7/16 in.); Framed: 62 x 45 cm (24 7/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	beige wove paper
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	The window mat bears an inscription written in graphite pencil along the bottom edge: "ENCRE DE CHINE/ET/AQUARELLE/BRACQUEMOND (FELIX) - 1833 - 1914 PROJECTS DE MIROIR UTILISANT UN BAS RELIEF DE RODIN Rep_?_ Arts Decoration 1902 Tome XII p. 10 Pour le Baron Vita."

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<strong><em>Artistic Luxury : Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique</em></strong><strong>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 19, 2008-January 18, 2009).</strong>', 'opening_date': '2008-10-19T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Librairie Blaizot, Paris, sold to Raphael Esmerian, Paris and New York)
	date: ?-1969
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	Raphael Esmerian [1903-1976], New York, by descent to his son Ralph Esmerian, New York
	date: 1969-1976
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	Ralph Esmerian [1940-], New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1976-2009
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2009-
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RELATED WORKS

	id: 		149386
	Hand Mirror, c. 1900. Designed by Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833–1914), relief by Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917), enamel by Alexander Riquet (French), goldsmith work by Alexis Falize (French, 1811–1898). Gold, enamel, and ivory; overall: 32.2 x 16.1 x 1.2 cm (12 11/16 x 6 5/16 x 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Ralph King, by exchange, 1978.43
	relationship: 	design for

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CITATIONS

	Librarie Auguste Blaizot. <em>Catalogue no 330; peintures, aquarelles, dessins originaux...</em>. Paris: Blaizot, 1969.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 9, no. 39
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	Bouillon, Jean-Paul. "An Artistic Collaboration: Bracquemond and Baron Vitta." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 66, no. 8 (1979): 311-19.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p.19n14
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	Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, and Jeannine J. Falino. <em>Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique</em>. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2008.
	page number: 	Mentioned: cat. 7
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IMAGES

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