The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of August 13, 2022

Fighting Animals

fourth quarter 18th century or first third 19th century

Carle Vernet

(French, 1758-1836)

France, late 18th-19th Century

Grpahite and black chalk with stumping [both have been stumped] heightened with white chalk; framing lines in black chalk

Support: Brown wove paper

Sheet: 31.8 x 40.7 cm (12 1/2 x 16 in.)

Gift of Louise M. Pierce 1923.50

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower left, in black chalk: Vernet [underlined]

Provenance
unidentified collector's mark, lower left, stamped in black ink (Lugt 846)
Exhibition history

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (July 11-Oct. 3, 1940).

CMA, Drawings from 1630 to 1830 in the Classic and Romantic Tradition (Dec. 7, 1932-Jan. 11, 1933).

CMA, An Exhibition of Drawings (1924), cma Bulletin 11 (1924), p. 142.

Drawings in the Classic and Romantic Tradition before 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 1932-January 11, 1933).

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-October 3, 1940).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1923.50