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Portrait of a Man in a Landscape

c. 1795

Marie Gabrielle Capet

(French, 1761–1818)

France, 18th century

Watercolor on ivory in a gold engraved frame (probably converted from a snuffbox) with a blue corded silk back

Diameter: 6.7 cm (2 5/8 in.); Diameter of frame: 7.8 cm (3 1/16 in.)

The Edward B. Greene Collection 1943.636

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Inscription

signed lower right: Capet

Provenance

A. Forgeron Paris, France

Dec. 3-4, 1909

(Sale: Forgeron, Paris, France, Dec. 3-4, 1909, no. 164).

Edouard Warneck, Paris, France

Nov. 19, 1924

(Sale: Edouard Warneck, Schidlof, Vienna Nov. 19, 1924, no. 38, pl. III).

[Possibly sold by Phillips to Nachemsohn, dealer in London, only to buy it back in 1927]

-1930

(S. J. Phillips, London, England, sold to Edward B. Greene).

1930-1943

Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland, OH gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1943.

1943-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

International Exhibition of Miniatures, Vienna, Albertina, (1924). cat. no. 129, repr. pl. VII

Galerie Leo Schidlof, Vienna. Miniaturensammlung Warneck, II. Teil. 1924. no. 38, pl. III

British Antique Dealers' Association, and Grafton Galleries (London). Exhibition of Art Treasures: (Under the Auspices of the British Antique Dealers' Association). London: Grafton Galleries, 1928. no. 1181.

Doria, Arnauld. Gabrielle Capet. Paris: Les Beaux-arts, édition d'études et de documents, 1934. no. 51, repr. pl. XXX, fig. 34

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures ; The Edward B. Greene Collection. 1951. Mentioned and reproduced; p. 33, no. 56, plate XXXIII archive.org

Exhibition history

International Exhibition of Miniatures, Vienna, Albertina, (1924).

Main Gallery Rotation Gallery 202, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (April 6, 2009 - October 26, 2009).

Art Treasures Exhibition, Association of British Art Dealers, Grafton Gallery, London, (1928).

Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993).

Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).

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