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Sophie Crouzet

Sophie Crouzet

c. 1801
(French, 1777–1860)
Framed: 101 x 85.5 x 12.5 cm (39 3/4 x 33 11/16 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 81.2 x 65 cm (31 15/16 x 25 9/16 in.)

Did You Know?

Sophie Crouzet, the sitter in this portrait, is a first cousin of the artist.

Description

The sitter's dress deliberately evokes ancient Roman costume. However, the white muslin and straightforward cut also derives from earlier English fashions that favored simplicity in contrast to the elaborate, colorful clothing favored earlier in the 1700s. The transparency of her dress also carries political and cultural meaning: during the French Revolution in 1789, costume began to signify political allegiance, a sign of the character of the person who wore it. For women, transparency became increasingly literal, as in the sheer fabric worn by Crouzet, who came from a family of active revolutionaries.
  • Sophie Crouzet, retained by, until her death in 1844.
    By inheritance to her son Félix-Adolphe Crouzet.
    By inheritance to his daughter Sophie Crouzet, wife of Gustave-François Bourotte.
    By inheritance to their first-born son Eugène (d. 1899).
    By inheritance to his brother Émile Bourotte, then by inheritance to his wife, Mme Joséphine Darte-Bourotte, Versailles.
    Sold to Wildenstein & Co., New York, probably in the early 1920s.
    Grace Rainey Rogers sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 18 November 1943 (lot 51), as Jacques-Louis David, Citoyenne Crouzet.
    Purchased by the CMA in 1943.
  • Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. Reproduced: p. 33 archive.org
    Francis, Henry S. “A Portrait by Jacques Louis David.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 32, no. 6 (June 1945): 83–85.

    Attributed to: Jacques Louis David Mentioned : p. 83-85; Reproduced: Cover www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 492 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 164 archive.org
    D’Argencourt, Louise. “The Story of a Painting: A Romance in Attribution.” Cleveland Studies in the History of Art 1 (1996): 116–129. Mentioned: p. 116-129; Reproduced: p. 117, fig. 1 www.jstor.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. 357-360, Vol. II, no. 125
    Jackall, Yuriko. America Collects Eighteenth-Century French Painting. Chicago, IL : Art Stock Books, Independent Publishers Group, 2017. Reproduced: p. 104, fig. 3
  • Rococo, Revolution, Restoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 11-September 24, 1989).
    Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984).
    Kansas City, Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum of Fine Arts. The Taste of Napoleon (1969), no. 23 (repr.), Circle of David, La Citoyenne Crouzet.
    Problem Pictures. The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY (organizer) (October 13-November 15, 1965).
    Indianapolis, Herron Museum of Art. The Romantic Era: Birth and Flowering 1750-1850 (1965), no. 26 (repr.), Circle of David, La Citoyenne Crouzet.
    Poughkeepsie, Vassar College Art Gallery. Problem Pictures: Paintings without Authors (1965), no. 22, Circle of Jacques Louis David, La Citoyenne Crouzet (?), ca. 1800.
    Akron (Ohio) Art Institute. Masterpiece of the Month (2-28 September 1958), as David; no cat.
    Art Gallery of Toronto. Comparisons (1957), no. 20, David, La Citoyenne Couzet [sic].
    Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956).
    Winnipeg Art Gallery. French Pre-Impressionist Painters of the Nineteenth Century (1954), 8, no. 3 (repr.), David, La Citoyenne Crouzet.
    Fort Worth Art Center. Inaugural Exhibition (1954), no. 18, David, La Citoyenne Crouzet (repr.).
    Seattle Art Museum. Masterpieces of Nineteenth Century Painting and Sculpture (7 March-6 May 1951), no cat.
    Omaha, Joslyn Art Museum. Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition-The Beginnings of Modern Painting, France 1800-1900 (1951), 4, David, La Citoyenne Crouzet.
    Detroit Institute of Arts. From David to Courbet (1950), no. 3, David, La Citoyenne Crouzet.
    New York, Wildenstein & Co. French XVIIIth Century Paintings (1948), 5, David, La Citoyenne Crouzet.
    Toledo Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Toronto. The Spirit of Modern France: An Essay on Painting in Society 1745-1946 (1946-47), no. 13, La Citoyenne Courzet [sic] 1795 (repr.).
    Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum. Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1929), no. 23 (repr.), David, Citoyenne Crouzet, Wildenstein & Co.
    Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum. Loan Exhibition of Distinguished Works of Art (1928), no. 25, Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of a Woman, lent by Wildenstein & Co.
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.659