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Old Woman Asleep

Old Woman Asleep

Mid 19th century
oil on fabric
Unframed: 31.8 x 41.3 cm (12 1/2 x 16 1/4 in.)
Holden Collection 1916.777
Location: not on view
  • By 1883, James Jackson Jarves, Boston. Purchased along with Jarves's collection in 1884 by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1916.
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Reproduced: p. 517; Mentioned: p. 517-518
    Rubinstein-Bloch, Stella. Catalogue of a Collection of Paintings, Etc. Presented by Mrs. Liberty E. Holden to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1917. Mentioned: p. 44-45, cat. no. 52 archive.org
    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. 656-657, Vol. II, no. 234
  • Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
    Cleveland, Hickcox Building. Cleveland Art Loan Exhibition (1894), no. 16.
    Boston. American Exhibition of Foreign Products, Arts, and Manufactures, "Jarves Collection" (1883), no. 417.
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