id:			374023
accession number:	2019.225
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.225
updated:		2025-04-29 11:06:20.653000

Fairy of the Alps, c. 1885. Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904). Charcoal with white chalk and black chalk, with framing lines in black crayon and squaring marks in graphite, on laid paper discolored to tan; sheet: 62.5 x 46.7 cm (24 5/8 x 18 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund, 2019.225

title:				Fairy of the Alps
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creation date:			c. 1885
creation date earliest:		1880
creation date latest:		1890
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creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. Richard W. Whitehill Art Purchase Endowment Fund
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culture:	France
technique:	charcoal with white chalk and black chalk, with framing lines in black crayon and squaring marks in graphite, on laid paper discolored to tan
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - French
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: Dubourg 1242

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CREATORS

* Henri Fantin-Latour (French, 1836–1904)  - artist
French painter and printmaker, 1836-1904
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measurements: Sheet: 62.5 x 46.7 cm (24 5/8 x 18 3/8 in.)
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	inscription:	signed, upper right, in charcoal: Fantin
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2023-01-19T05:00:00
	<i>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Exposition de dessins de Fantin-Latour</em>. Galerie Tempelaere, Paris (December 2–21, 1901).', 'opening_date': '1901-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Madame Albert Esnault-Pelterie, Paris
	date: by 1901-1937
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	(her sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 4, 1937, no. 11)
	date: 1937
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	(sale, De Baecque et Associés, Paris, June 19, 2017, no. 230)
	date: 2017
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	(Jill Newhouse, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 2017-2019
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2019-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Hédiard, Germain. "Les Dessins de Fantin-Latour." Unpublished manuscript, 1901. Bibliothèque Nationale de France (YB3-2752-4).
	page number: 	Mentioned: nos. 77 (dessins encadrés) and 12 (exposition chez M. Tempelaere)
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	Dubourg, Victoria. <em>Catalogue de l’œuvre complet (1849–1904) de Fantin-Latour</em>. Paris: Floury, 1911.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 129, no. 1242
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	<em>Tableaux modernes et du XIXe siècle </em>[. . .] <em>appartenant à M. X </em>[. . .]. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1937.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 4, no. 11
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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.225/2019.225_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.225/2019.225_full.tif