id:			448817
accession number:	2021.170.8
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.170.8
updated:		2025-04-01 11:09:48.033000

Love: She Was More Beautiful Than Dreams, 1899. Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943). Color lithograph on wove paper; image: 40.4 x 29.1 cm (15 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); sheet: 53 x 40.3 cm (20 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust and partial gift of Stephen Dull, 2021.170.8

title:				She Was More Beautiful Than Dreams
title in original language:	
series:				Love
series in original language:	Amour
creation date:			1899
creation date earliest:		1899
creation date latest:		1899
current location:		
creditline:			Purchase from the Jane B. Tripp Charitable Lead Annuity Trust and partial gift of Stephen Dull
copyright:			

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culture:	
technique:	color lithograph on wove paper
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
find spot:	
catalogue raisonne: Cailler 114

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CREATORS

* Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943)  - artist

* August Clot (French, 1858–1936)  - printer

* Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939)  - publisher
French art dealer and publisher, 1867-1939
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measurements: Image: 40.4 x 29.1 cm (15 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); Sheet: 53 x 40.3 cm (20 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Recto, lower left: “Elle était plus belle que les rèves”
	translation:	
	remark:		

	inscription:	In graphite, recto, lower right: “Maurice Denis (signed)”
	translation:	
	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Georgina Kelman Works on Paper, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
	date: ?-2021
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: December 6, 2021-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cailler, Pierre. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié de Maurice Denis. Geneve: Éditions Pierre Cailler, 1968.
	page number: 	Mentioned no. 114
	url:		

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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.170.8/2021.170.8_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.170.8/2021.170.8_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.170.8/2021.170.8_full.tif