Decoration Executed for the Birthday of His Majesty the King of Westphalia
1811
Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri
Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri (French, 1782–1868)
Drawings
Decoration Executed for the Birthday of His Majesty the King of Westphalia, 1811. Pierre-Luc-Charles Cicéri (French, 1782–1868). Pen and black ink and watercolor with graphite; heightened with white gouache on off-white wove paper; sheet: 32 x 42.3 cm (12 5/8 x 16 5/8 in.); secondary support: 44 x 53.2 cm (17 5/16 x 20 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.341
- Maker/Artist
- Cicéri, Pierre-Luc-Charles
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Pen and black ink and watercolor with graphite; heightened with white gouache on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 32 x 42.3 cm (12 5/8 x 16 5/8 in.); Secondary Support: 44 x 53.2 cm (17 5/16 x 20 15/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: verso, center right, in graphite: 1930; secondary support, lower center, in graphite (under primary support): Bas; lower center, in brown ink: décoration Exécutée pour l'anniversaire de la naissance de S. M. le Roi de Wesphalie, / Ordonnée par Monsieur bruguière Surintendant des théatres. / Dessin exécuté au théâtre de Cassel en 1811, par cicéri, Ier ["er" underlined] peintre de l'Opéra.
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 2008.341
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Exhibitions
- French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin, Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-century Prints and Drawings
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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