Collection Online as of March 28, 2023

(Belgian, 1833–1898)

Black crayon, black chalk and graphite (stumped and scraped away in places) and brush and gray wash and crayon, heightened with white chalk

Support: Laid down on

Sheet: 16.2 x 23.3 cm (6 3/8 x 9 3/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 1979.89

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower right, in black chalk: [artist monogram: FR] ; VERSO OF SECONDARY SUPPORT, upper center, in graphite: No [underlined] X ; upper center, in graphite: 1.carte [illegible] / teinte ancienne / Genre III mais plus etroite / [illegible] ; center, in graphite: 31 + 24. / 891. ; lower left, in graphite: F Rops / - / "Soirée d'Hiver" [underlined] / Collection Holtzer / N° [o underlined] Y de la Vente de 12 et 13 Nov 1896. / (dessin ombré H. 0.22. L. 0.15) / - / Dessin reproduit (d'après une photo) / á la page 143 du volume / de lemonnier "Felicien Rops" / Floury 1908. / sous la designation "Femme couchée" ; lower right, in graphite: 64

Provenance

Holzer (Paris sale, Nov. 1896, no. 25); Germain Seligman; [Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox]

Citations

Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1979." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 67, no. 3 (1980): 58-99. Reproduced: cat. no. 89, p. 72; Mentioned: p. 61 www.jstor.org

Exhibition history

Namur, Belgium: Musée Félicien Rops, "Felicien Rops, Les Cent légers croquis san pretention pour réjour les honnetes gens" 9/12 - 11/8/98, exh. cat. no. 100, p. 234-[235].

Quebec: Musée du Quebec, "Félicien Rops" 9/27/99 - 1/4/00, cat. no. 154, p. 66.

Year in Review: 1979. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-March 9, 1980).

Félicien Rops, Les Cent légers croquis sand prétention pour réjouir les honnêtes gens. Musée Félicien Rops (organizer) (September 12-October 11, 1998).

Félicien Rops. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec City, Canada (organizer) (September 27, 1999-January 4, 2000).

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Winter Evening

Félicien Rops

Location

Inscription