The Cleveland Museum of Art

• Provenance
  Probably 1859-1880

  Nicolas Toussaint Hadengue [1817-1877] and Marie Sandras Hadengue [1827-1893], Paris

  1880

  (Hadengue-Sandras sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Feb. 2-3, 1880, no. 6)

  1978

  (Sale, Hôtel Drouot, March 3, 1978, lot 96, sold to Galerie François Delestre)

  1978

  (Galerie François Delestre, Paris, sold to Noah L. and Muriel S. Butkin)

  1978-1980

  Noah L. [1918-1980] and Muriel S. Butkin [1915-2008], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Muriel S. Butkin

  1980-

  The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

  Provenance Footnotes

  1 Mlle. Hadengue” is inscribed on the back of the canvas; this notation may refer to Marie Sandras Hadengue, who probably consigned the painting to Hôtel Drouot in 1880, three years after her husband Nicolas’s death.  The painting was certainly in the Hadengue collection: it appears in the 1880 Drouot sale, and furthermore, Nicolas and Cals were friends. The Hadengue family owned several paintings by the artist, including three portraits of Nicolas – one for each of their children. Nicolas found his success in the textile mills of northern France, and bought a number of paintings from artists working at the time. 

  2 In the Drouot sale catalogue, the painting is titled “La partie de piquet, effet de lampe.”  “Piquet” refers to “Spades,” and so the title translates to “Game of Spades by lamplight.”  Although the painting is not reproduced in the catalogue, this description, along with the dimensions given and the reference to its oval shape, make the painting a clear match for the Cleveland picture.
• Citations
  Estate of Noah L. Butkin, Bequests to Cleveland Museum of Art as a result of disclaimer by Murel S. Butkin. Estates, Gifts, and Funds, Series 1, Box 2:14. Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.
  
  

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  François Delestre, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Dec. 8, 2014, in CMA curatorial file.

  Hôtel Drouot. Aquarelles, dessins, gouaches, pastels, cʹeramiques, sculptures, tableaux modernes. March 3, 1978.

  François Delestre, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Dec. 8, 2014, in CMA curatorial file

  Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux modernes. Feb. 2-3, 1880.

  Weisberg, Gabriel P. The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing, 1830-1900. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980.

  Philippe de Frémont, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Nov. 20, 2015, in CMA curatorial file.

  Philippe de Frémont, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Nov. 22, 2015, in CMA curatorial file.

  Hôtel Drouot. Tableaux modernes. Feb. 2-3, 1880.

  Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 100-101, Vol. I, no. 37
• Exhibition History
  The Cleveland Museum of Art (5/28/00 - 7/30/00); "Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections", not in exh. cat.

  Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 28-July 30, 2000).

  Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

  The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830 - 1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 12, 1980-January 18, 1981).

  CMA; Brooklyn Museum; Saint Louis Art Museum; Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum. The Realist Tradition: French Painting and Drawing 1830-1900 (1980-82), 167, no. 141 (repr.). Text by Gabriel P. Weisberg.
• Cite this Page
  {{cite web|title=Card Game at "le Père Martin"|url=false|author=Adolphe-Félix Cals|year=1859|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}