Collection Online as of November 29, 2023

Design for a Hand Mirror

c. 1900–1902

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Félix Bracquemond

(French, 1833–1914)

France, 20th century

Watercolor and black ink with graphite

Support: Beige wove paper

Sheet: 18 x 13.8 cm (7 1/16 x 5 7/16 in.); Framed: 62 x 45 cm (24 7/16 x 17 11/16 in.)

Dudley P. Allen Fund 2009.11.4

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

The window mat bears an inscription written in graphite pencil along the bottom edge: "ENCRE DE CHINE/ET/AQUARELLE/BRACQUEMOND (FELIX) - 1833 - 1914 PROJECTS DE MIROIR UTILISANT UN BAS RELIEF DE RODIN Rep_?_ Arts Decoration 1902 Tome XII p. 10 Pour le Baron Vita."

Provenance

?-1969

(Librairie Blaizot, Paris, sold to Raphael Esmerian, Paris and New York)

1969-1976

Raphael Esmerian [1903-1976], New York, by descent to his son Ralph Esmerian, New York

1976-2009

Ralph Esmerian [1940-], New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

2009-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Librarie Auguste Blaizot. Catalogue no 330; peintures, aquarelles, dessins originaux.... Paris: Blaizot, 1969. Mentioned: p. 9, no. 39

Bouillon, Jean-Paul. "An Artistic Collaboration: Bracquemond and Baron Vitta." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 66, no. 8 (1979): 311-19. Mentioned: p.19n14

Harrison, Stephen, Emmanuel Ducamp, and Jeannine J. Falino. Artistic Luxury: Fabergé Tiffany Lalique. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2008. Mentioned: cat. 7

Exhibition history

Artistic Luxury : Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 19, 2008-January 18, 2009).