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Oct 6, 2010

Portrait of a Lady

1767–1855

Jean-Baptiste Isabey

(French, 1767–1855)

France, 19th century

Black chalk with stumping, heightened with white chalk; framing lines in black chalk

Support: Cream(3) wove paper, discolored to dark beige in image area

Sheet: 21.6 x 16.8 cm (8 1/2 x 6 5/8 in.); Image: 16.9 x 13.9 cm (6 5/8 x 5 1/2 in.)

Gift of Mrs. A. Dean Perry in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Belden Greene 1960.133

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Inscription

signed, center left, in gray ink: J. Isabey ; ON AN OLD MAT (now removed): Mme [me superscript] Mulo pui Monsur / Malard de faire 1 passpartout oval en papier / de couleur le [illegible] possible -- pour / Demain si c'est possible pour [illegible]sey cherche / vous divez l'heur

Provenance

unidentified collector's mark?, center right, in blue ink: A[is ?]. Edward Belden Greene, Cleveland

Exhibition history

CMA, The Year in Review for 1960 (Nov. 30, 1960-Jan. 1, 1961), cma Bulletin 47 (1960), p. 254 no. 85, illus. p. 240.

CMA, "Drawings from the Collection" (May 28-Oct. 6, 1937).

CMA, Lace and Drawings from the Museum Collection (Dec. 16, 1936-Jan. 3, 1937).

CMA, Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections (July 12-Sep. 15, 1935).

CMA, Louise Tifft Brown Lace Bequest: Supplementing Drawings (Dec. 12, 1933-Jan. 1, 1934).

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

Exhibition of Drawings from the Museum Collection Supplemented by Loans from Local Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 12-September 15, 1935).

Year in Review - Nineteen Hundred Sixty. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 30, 1960-January 1, 1961).

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