The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 19, 2025
Three Figures with a Dog
probably 1800s
(French, 1741–1814)
Overall: 14 x 9.9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.); Sheet: 7.9 x 4.9 cm (3 1/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2017.216
Location: not on view
Description
An accomplished draftsman in eighteenth-century France, Moreau the Younger produced numerous designs for book illustrations of which this may be an example. In this scene a woman directs the hand of a man as he writes. Raising her left hand, she gestures to the solider to remain at a distance while the small dog reacts to this peculiar encounter.- {{cite web|title=Three Figures with a Dog|url=false|author=Jean-Michel the Younger Moreau|year=probably 1800s|access-date=19 March 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2017.216