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Oct 28, 2008

The Suburbs: Stock Raiser and Captain

probably 1859–1860

Paul Gavarni

(French, 1804–1866)

France, 19th century

Watercolor (mixed with white gouache in places) over graphite, heightened with white gouache

Watermarks: Along left margin: J Whatman / 1811

Support: Cream wove paper, discolored

Sheet: 29.4 x 21 cm (11 9/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Secondary Support: 38 x 29.4 cm (14 15/16 x 11 9/16 in.)

Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.411

Location

not on view

Description

The subject here-a man who raises livestock and happens to be a captain as well-is one in a long line of Parisian characters that Gavarni chronicled in his career. This sheet once belonged to the collection of the artist's watercolors made for the important Parisian publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel. Composed of about 200 sheets executed mostly in 1859-60, Hetzel's collection was a rare ensemble of the artist's best work in the medium.

Artist biography

Paul Gavarni

Gavarni captured the private lives of Parisians in the over 4,000 illustrations he produced for journals and magazines.

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower right, in gray wash: Gavarni; by artist, lower left, in gray wash: Banlieue. Nourrisseur et Capitaine; upper right, in graphite: [5?]7; verso, lower right, in graphite: ntb 2; lower right, in red crayon: No 81 [upside down, underlined]

Provenance

?-1884

Pierre-Jules Hetzel [1814-1886], Paris ¹

1884

(Hotel Drouot, Hetzel sale, Paris, 26 May 26, 1884, no. 45) ²

1925

(Hotel Drouot, Paris, December 3, 1925, no. 23)

By 1975

(Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London)

1976

(Paris art market, sold to Shepherd Gallery, New York) ³

1976

(Shepherd Gallery, New York, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH)

1976-2008

Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

2008-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Provenance Footnotes

¹Collector mark [not in Lugt], verso, lower right, in red ink [upside down]: OEUVRES INEDITES DE GAVARNI HETZEL & Cie.

²For 450 francs, according to annotated copy in the Bibliothèque d'Art et d'Archéologie, Jacques Doucet, Paris.

³According to Shepherd Gallery records.

Citations

Hotel Drouot, Paris. Cent trente-quatre aquarelles importantes de Gavarni. May 24, 1884. Lot. 45 Mentioned: no. 45

Lemoisne, Paul-André. Gavarni, peintre et lithographe. Paris: H. Floury, 1924. Mentioned: pp. 208, 210

Hotel Drouot, Paris. Tableaux Modernes, Aquarelles, Dessins, Pastels, Gravures. December 3, 1925. Lot 23. Mentioned: no. 23

Bunzl, Yvonne Tan. Old Master Drawings and French Drawings of the 19th Century. London: Correspondence C/o Barclays Bank, 1975. Mentioned: cat. no. 40; Reproduced: pl. 38

Shepherd Gallery. Non-Dissenters: One Hundred and Seventy French Nineteenth Century Drawings, Pastels and Watercolors. Exh. Cat. New York: Shepherd Gallery, 1976. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 88

Masheck, Joseph, "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions: New York," Burlington Magazine 119, no. 889 (April 1977), 307-308. Mentioned: p. 308; Reproduced: fig. 116, p. 309

Foster, Carter E., Sylvain Bellenger, and Patrick Shaw Cable. French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 39, p. 88-89

Exhibition history

Old Master Drawings and French Drawings of the 19th Century, London (Summer 1975).

Non-Dissenters: Fifth Exhibition Marking Our Tenth Anniversary. Shepherd Gallery, New York (November 1-December 31, 1976).

French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001); Dahesh Museum of Art (February 19-May 18, 2002).

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