id: 168343 accession number: 2010.171 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.171 updated: 2022-01-04 17:49:32.466000 La Saltarelle, 1800s. Dominque Louis Papety (French, 1815-1849). Watercolor and gouache with selective gum glazing over a faint graphite underdrawing ; sheet: 25.4 x 35.7 cm (10 x 14 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2010.171 title: La Saltarelle title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1800s creation date earliest: 1835 creation date latest: 1849 current location: creditline: Bequest of Muriel Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: watercolor and gouache with selective gum glazing over a faint graphite underdrawing department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Dominque Louis Papety (French, 1815-1849) - artist Winner of the Prix de Rome in 1836. --- measurements: Sheet: 25.4 x 35.7 cm (10 x 14 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: heavyweight cream wove paper watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: Signed in black ink, lower right: Dom. Papety translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Shepherd Gallery, NYC, "19th century French and other Continental Drawings, Watercolors, and Oil Sketches," Winter Exhibition, 1979, no. 103 (illus). --- PROVENANCE Shepherd Gallery, New York City, October 1978 date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: During the 15th century, La Saltarelle was a popular Neapolitan court dance named for its particular leaping step, after the Italian verb saltare (to jump). Lively and merry, it was played in a fast triple meter. In the 19th century, the saltarello was featured in the Carnival celebrations preceding Lent in Rome. After witnessing the Roman Carnival of 1831, the German composer Felix Mendelssohn incorporated the dance into the finale of one of his masterpieces, the Italian Symphony. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.171/2010.171_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.171/2010.171_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2010.171/2010.171_full.tif