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Oct 6, 2010

Jacques Luc Barbier-Valbonne

1796

Jean-Baptiste Isabey

(French, 1767–1855)

France, 19th century

Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white gouache on beige wove paper

Support: Cream(3) wove paper, partially discolored to yellow-brown

Sheet: 26.2 x 20.7 cm (10 5/16 x 8 1/8 in.)

Gift of Harry D. Kendrick 1950.496

Location

not on view

Description

The French Revolution (1789–99) disrupted all traditional hierarchies, including that of art, which habitually placed history painting in the highest regard. When Isabey exhibited this portrait of his friend and fellow artist in the 1796 salon, drawings had taken on significance as a more personal and egalitarian form of art. Isabey depicts Barbier as a solid citizen of the new Republic. The tasseled cap and embroidered jacket recall Barbier’s service as a hussar, a type of soldier; the vest, cravat, and “dog-ear” hairstyle were popular among young men in Paris at the time. Traditionally, however, a fashionable man would not be shown smoking, an activity usually associated with lower classes. Isabey’s focus on the long pipe and steady stream of smoke made the drawing especially populist for the time.

Provenance

(César de Hauke, Paris?, according to departmental catalog sheet); Henry G. Dalton, Cleveland (according to departmental card)

Exhibition history

CMA, 17th and 18th Century Genre and French Drawings (May 31-Aug. 19, 1979).

CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (Apr. 27, 1972-Feb. 2, 1973).

CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (opened Dec. 1, 1970).

CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (1966).

CMA, "Gallery List of Drawings" (Sep. 19-Nov. 5, 1962).

CMA, Italian and French Drawings (Oct. 13, 1959-Feb. 2, 1960).

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" ("rearranged Jan. 21, 1953").

CMA, "Accessions Preview Tea, Gallery XII" (Apr. 8, 1951).

CMA, "Director's Corridor" (from June 30, 1950).

CMA, "hung Director's Corridor" (Feb. 7, 1947 (still listed Aug. 8, 1947)).

CMA, Exhibition of French Art (June 22-Aug. 31, 1943).

CMA (?), "for exh. at same time as French Drawings and Water Colors, lent by French museums and circulated by San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum" (1942).

CMA, Drawings from 1630 to 1830 in the Classic and Romantic Tradition (Dec. 7, 1932-Jan. 11, 1933), cma Bulletin 19 (1932), p. 169.

CMA, French Art since Eighteen Hundred (1929), cma Bulletin 16 (1929), p. 155.

35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).

Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956).

Italian and French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 13, 1959-February 2, 1960).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1965-February 16, 1966).

Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).

Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).

French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).

Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 16-November 6, 2016).

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