id: 81391
accession number: 2020.109
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Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory, 1894. Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943). Oil on canvas glued to cardboard; unframed: 34.9 x 31.4 x 0.6 cm (13 3/4 x 12 3/8 x 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.109
title: Drying the Linen, or Moonrise at the Priory
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creation date: 1894
creation date earliest: 1894
creation date latest: 1894
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creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
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culture: France, 19th century
technique: oil on canvas glued to cardboard
department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type: Painting
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CREATORS
* Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943) - artist
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measurements: Unframed: 34.9 x 31.4 x 0.6 cm (13 3/4 x 12 3/8 x 1/4 in.)
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inscription: Signed and dated lower left: MAVD 94, Signed lower right: MAVD
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900
opening date: 2021-07-01T04:00:00
Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (July 1-September 19, 2021); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (co-organizer) (October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* 9è exposition.Le Barc de Boutteville, Paris, France (1895).
* La Libre Esthétique. Brussels,Belgium (1896).
* Rétrospective Maurice Denis Union Centrale des Arts décoratifs 1888-1924. Pavillon de Marsan, Paris, France (1924).
* Galerie Louis Carré, Paris, France (1941).
* Maurice Denis. Musée d' Art Moderne, Paris, France (1945).
* Maurice Denis. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France (September 29-December 18, 1994); Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany (January 10-March 25, 1995); Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom (April 21-June 18, 1995); Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
(June 22-September 17, 1995).
* Maurice Denis. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (October 31, 2006-January 21, 2007); Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec (February 22-May 20, 2007).
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PROVENANCE
Pierre Guéguen [1889-1965] Paris, France, by gift from the artist
date: 1941
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Claude R. Cueto, Paris, France
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Claude R. Cueto, sold to the Sam Josefowitz Family, December 22, 1987
date: 1987
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The Sam Josefowitz Family, New York, NY
date: 1987-2010
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Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
date: 2010-2020
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
date: 2020-
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fun fact:
Denis began creating religious art in 1894, the year this painting was completed. A priory, as described in the title, is a religious building where monks and nuns live under the leadership of a prior.
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This painting depicts the enclosed backyard gardens of a former priory in Saint-Germain-en-Laye that Maurice Denis purchased in 1914. He transformed it into a home for his large family and lived there for the last thirty years of his life. The woman in the lower left is hanging linens to dry, so that—according to custom—they will be whitened or bleached by moonlight. The moon casts an intense yellow light over the entire scene, making the buildings glow with mysterious color.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Maurice Denis, 1870-1943: Lyon, Musée Des Beaux-Arts, 29 September-18 December 1994 : Cologne, Wallraf-Richarts Museum, 22 January-2 April 1995 : Liverpool, Walker Art Gallery, 21 April-18 June 1995 : Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 7 July-17 September 1995. Ghent: Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, 1994.
page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 182, no.56
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Heilbrun, Françoise, Saskia Ooms, and Nathalie Bondil. Maurice Denis. Paris: Musée d'Orsay, 2006.
page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: P. 125-126, no. 11
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Sanchez, Pierre, and Dominique Lobstein. Les Expositions de la Galerie Le Barc de Boutteville (1891-1899) et du Salon des Cent (1894-1903): Répertoire des Artistes et de Leurs Oeuvres. 2012.
page number: Mentioned: P. 235, no. 37
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Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “In the Garden.” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 194-217. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.
page number: Mentioned: P. 201; Reproduced: P. 214, no. 143
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