19th-Century Works of Art: Featuring Works from The Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection Sold to Benefit the Cleveland Museum of Art
19th-Century Works of Art: Featuring Works from The Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection Sold to Benefit the Cleveland Museum of Art
PROPERTY FROM THE MURIEL S. AND NOAH L. BUTKIN COLLECTION, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Horace Vernet
Socialism and Cholera
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May 24, 02:14 PM GMT
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15,000 - 20,000 USD
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Property from the Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection, Sold to Benefit the Cleveland Museum of Art
Horace Vernet
French
1789-1863
Socialism and Cholera
signed and dated Vernet 1850 (upper right)
oil on canvas
canvas: 13 ¾ by 14 ½ in.; 35 by 37 cm
framed: 20 by 20 ¾ in.; 51 by 53 cm
Paul Demidoff, Paris
His Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 January 1863, no. 14
Comte Jules Polydore Le Marois
His Sale: 6 May 1870, Paris
The Muriel S. and Noah L. Butkin Collection
J. J. Arnoux, "Beaux-Arts, Salon de 1851," La Patrie, 22 January 1851, p. 1.
T Silvestre, Les Artistes vivants d'apres nature: Horace Vernet, 1857, pp. 45.
L. Lagrange, "Horace Vernet," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1863, t 15, p. 461.
X Feyrnet, "Courrier de Paris," L'Illustration, 1 semestre 1863, p. 35.
H Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d'Art e France et a l'Etranger, 1911, t. 7, p. 339.
R N Beetem, "Vernet's mural in the Palais Bourbon," The Art Bulletin, June 1984, vol. 66, no. 2, pp. 265-269, p. 266, illustrated.
Claudine Renaudeau, Horace Vernet 1789-1863. Chronologie et Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, PhD dissertation, Paris 1999, no. 515, pp. 486-87 (as Socialisme et coléra).
Katie Hornstein, "Episodes in Political Illusion: The Proliferation of War Imagery in France (1804-1856)," PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2010, p. 236.
Engraved:
PJM Jazet, 1850, gravure a la maniere noire "Les fleaux du XIXeme siecle Cholera et Socialisme" BNE Ef 236g gf, ft 4