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The Falconer

The Falconer

c. 1864
(French, 1820–1876)
France, 19th century
watercolor with pen and brown ink
Sheet: 31.4 x 22.9 cm (12 3/8 x 9 in.)
Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 1973.7
Location: not on view
  • 1877
    (Hotel Drouot, Paris, Fromentin sale, Feb. 3, 1877, no. 152)
    ?-?
    Private Collection, New York
    ?-1973
    (Wildenstein & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
    1973-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    Provenance Footnotes
    1 Possibly the CMA drawing.
  • Hotel Drouot, Paris. Catalogue de la vente qui aura lieu par suite du décès de Eug. Fromentin: ses tableaux, études, aquarelles, dessins et croquis. February 3, 1877. Lot 152. Mentioned: no. 152
    "The Year in Review for 1973." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 61, no. 2 (1974): 31-78. Mentioned: p. 75; Reproduced: p. 47, no. 75 www.jstor.org
    Stevens, Mary Anne. The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse: the Allure of North Africa and the Near East. Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1984. Mentioned: p. 135
    Thompson, James, and Barbara Wright. La vie et l'œuvre d'Eugène Fromentin. Paris: ACR Édition, 1987. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 196
    Harrison, Jefferson C. The Chrysler Museum: Handbook of the European and American Collections; Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings. Norfolk, Va.: Chrysler Museum of Art, 1991. Mentioned: p. 112
    Cable, Patrick Shaw. "From North Africa to the Black Sea: Nineteenth-Century French Orientalist Drawings." Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 7 (2002): 104-25. Mentioned: pp. 111, 113-115, 123; Reproduced: p. 114, fig. 9 www.jstor.org
    Thompson, James, and Barbara Wright. Eugène Fromentin, 1820-1876: visions d'Algérie et d'Egypte. Paris: ACR Édition, 2008. Mentioned: p. 242; Reproduced: p. 220
  • French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).
    Animals as Romantic Icons in French Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 6-July 27, 1986).
    Year in Review: 1973. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 30-March 17, 1974).
  • {{cite web|title=The Falconer|url=false|author=Eugène Fromentin|year=c. 1864|access-date=08 May 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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