id:			74630
accession number:	2015.452
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.452
updated:		2024-03-26 01:55:42.986000

Four Oxen Pulling a Plough, 1853. Constant Troyon (French, 1810–1865). Black chalk and gouache with graphite and gum Arabic and traces of white chalk in sky, squared for transfer in black chalk; sheet: 35.5 x 28.1 cm (14 x 11 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2015.452

title:				Four Oxen Pulling a Plough
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creation date:			1853
creation date earliest:		1848
creation date latest:		1858
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creditline:			Bequest of Muriel Butkin
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	Black chalk and gouache with graphite and gum Arabic and traces of white chalk in sky, squared for transfer in black chalk
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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* Constant Troyon (French, 1810–1865)  - artist
After training to become a porcelain painter at Sèvres, Troyon became interested in 17th century Dutch landscape painting, particularly the work of Jacob van Ruisdael, and subsequently became a member of the Barbizon School. After becoming Chevalier de le Légion d'honneur in 1849, his work shifted from landscapes to the painting of animals, often with laborers. His later landscapes of Normady were an influence on the Impressionists.
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measurements: Sheet: 35.5 x 28.1 cm (14 x 11 1/16 in.)
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	inscription:	Inscribed, lower right, in black chalk: C. Troyon / Paris 1853
Inscribed on verso, top edge, in graphite: Samlung Prof. Adam Politzer Wient / [in another hand] Constant Troyon / Studie zum grossen Bilde in Louvre 1839 / Feldarbeit 
Salon label, lower right, black ink on purple: 1052 
Stamp, verso, purple ink: [in double-circle] BUNDDENKMALMAN WIEN [Austrian Federal Monuments Office] 

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