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Source Description
Marie-Élisabeth Godard d’Aucourt de Saint-Just, shown here, belonged to a wealthy French shipbuilding family. Louis Léopold Boilly probably created this drawing to present for approval the preliminary composition of d’Aucourt’s painted portrait. The grid overlaying the drawing suggests a direct transfer to canvas; the image changed dramatically in the painting, where d’Aucourt appears in a grotto, unoccupied. That composition aligned with gender norms at the time that placed women in the natural world rather than the cultural sphere. Perhaps still interested in the drawing’s costume and interior, Boilly later reused them in a sheet depicting a working-class milliner, or hatmaker.
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148001
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Woman in Front of a Fireplace
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148001
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drawing
title
Woman in Front of a Fireplace
description
Marie-Élisabeth Godard d’Aucourt de Saint-Just, shown here, belonged to a wealthy French shipbuilding family. Louis Léopold Boilly probably created this drawing to present for approval the preliminary composition of d’Aucourt’s painted portrait. The grid overlaying the drawing suggests a direct transfer to canvas; the image changed dramatically in the painting, where d’Aucourt appears in a grotto, unoccupied. That composition aligned with gender norms at the time that placed women in the natural world rather than the cultural sphere. Perhaps still interested in the drawing’s costume and interior, Boilly later reused them in a sheet depicting a working-class milliner, or hatmaker.
date
c. 1805–7
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
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Q79927924
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13285
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Drawing
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1
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dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 46 x 37 cm (18 1/8 x 14 9/16 in.)
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France, early 19th Century
accession
1974.93
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black chalk and gray wash heightened with white chalk, squared in black chalk, on blue wove paper
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Woman in Front of a Fireplace, c. 1805–7. Louis Léopold Boilly (French, 1761–1845). Black chalk and gray wash heightened with white chalk, squared in black chalk, on blue wove paper; sheet: 46 x 37 cm (18 1/8 x 14 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1974.93
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blue wove paper
collection
DR - French
didYouKnow
The Egypt-inspired decor throughout the interior seen in this drawing was especially fashionable in early 19th-century France.
citations
citation
<em>Atelier de Serrur, peintre d’histoire: Ses œuvres et sa collection particulière</em>. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1866.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 22, no. 149
citation
Harrisse, Henry. <em>L.-L. Boilly, peintre, dessinateur et lithographe: Sa vie et son œuvre, 1761–1845</em>. Paris: Société de Propagation des Livres d’art, 1898.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 169, no. 948
citation
<em>Catalogue des tableaux anciens, pastels, dessins anciens </em>[. . .] <em>provenant de la collection de M. B. </em>Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1936.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 5, no. 10
citation
<em>Dessins et tableaux anciens</em>. Paris: Hôtel Drouot, 1972.
page_number
Mentioned: no. 16; Reproduced: cover
citation
Lee, Sherman E. "The Year in Review for 1974." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 62, no. 3 (1975): 62-102.
page_number
p. 99 no. 58, illus. p. 78.
url
www.jstor.org/stable/25152580
citation
Scottez-De Wambrechies, Annie and Sylvain Laveissière. <em>Boilly, 1761–1845: Un Grand Peintre français de la Révolution à la Restauration</em>. Exh. cat. Lille: Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 1989.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 108
citation
Bréton, Étienne and Pascal Zuber. <em>Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1761–1845: Le Peintre de la société parisienne de Louis XVI à Louis-Philippe</em>, 2:642 (ill.), 918, no. 658 D. Paris: Arthena, 2019.
page_number
Mentioned: vol. 2, pp. 642, 918, no. 658 D; Reproduced: p. 642
citation
Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 70-73, no. 2
catalogueRaisonne
Harrisse 948; Bréton and Zuber 658 D
creditline
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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2026-05-29 07:36:11.032000
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148001
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Drawings
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DR - French
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black chalk and gray wash heightened with white chalk, squared in black chalk, on blue wove paper
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male
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