id:			453052
accession number:	2022.47
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2022.47
updated:		2024-03-26 02:02:20.184000

Three Illustrious Fons and a Queen before the Old Foumban Palace, 1961. Ibrahim Njoya (Bamum Kingdom (Cameroonian), c. 1887–1962). Paper, ink, watercolor, carbon; wooden frame carved by the artist; paper: 78.7 x 96.5 cm (31 x 38 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Severance and Greta Millikin Trust 2022.47

title:				Three Illustrious Fons and a Queen before the Old Foumban Palace
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creation date:			1961
creation date earliest:		1961
creation date latest:		1961
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creditline:			Severance and Greta Millikin Trust
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culture:	Africa, Central Africa, Bamum Kingdom, Cameroon
technique:	Paper, ink, watercolor, carbon; wooden frame carved by the artist
department:	African Art
collection:	African Art
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Ibrahim Njoya (Bamum Kingdom (Cameroonian), c. 1887–1962)  - artist

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measurements: Paper: 78.7 x 96.5 cm (31 x 38 in.)
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	inscription:	inscriptions below each likeness (French text: 11 Roi Mbombo / 15 Ngoungoure Chetfon/Precesse de Roi Mbombo Mere du Roi Nsangou / 16 Roi Nsangu / 17 Sultan Njoya Ibrahima; Bamum script, to be translated); signed and dated lower right in pen and black ink in French (Bamum script above): Dessinateur/Njoya IbrahimA/20-5-61.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>A Cameroon World: Art and Artifacts from the Caroline and Marshall Mount Collection</em>. Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Oakland Gardens, NY (October 2007 - February 2008).', 'opening_date': '2007-10-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Marshall Mount, purchased from the artist in Cameroon
	date: 1961
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	Christopher Mount, United States, by inheritance.
	date: 2018–2022
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	(Amyas Naegele Gallery, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 2022
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2022–
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Page, Donna. <em>A Cameroon World: Art and Artifacts from the Caroline and Marshall Mount Collection</em>. Bayside, NY: QCC Art Gallery, City University of New York, 2007.
	page number: 	p. 30, p. 91 (plate 44)
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