The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of February 5, 2023

Double-leaf Doors

1790s

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Pierre Rousseau

(French, 1751–1829)

France, 18th century

Oil on wood

Unframed: 274 x 63 cm (107 7/8 x 24 13/16 in.)

Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey 1942.2.13

Location

202 French Neoclassical Decorative Arts

Description

Shifts in style and taste often result in changes to original architectural details. Rousseau painted these doors with imitation dark wood grain. Another craftsman later scraped off the dark color surrounding the classical designs. This set was conserved in 1979 and retains more traces of the original graining than the other doors by this artist in the museum's collection.

Provenance
Said by Wildenstein & Co. (letter of January 19,1942) to have come from 193 Boulevard St. Germain, Paris (known at the time as 21 and 23 rue St. Dominique), a private house, supposedly built after plans by Ange-Jacques Gabriel (1698—1782). Comte Hippolyte Terray, owner of the house from about 1830; Marquise de Belleuf (daughter of Comte Terray); Comte de Waresquiel; Arthur Veil-Picard; [Wildenstein & Co., Paris]; Grace Rainey Rogers, purchased in 1913. Gift of Grace Rainey Rogers in memory of her father, William J. Rainey, 1942 and 1944.
Citations
Cleveland Museum of Art. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 3. European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Reproduced: fig. 56, p. 132 - 140
Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1942.2.13