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AT-00010119A Volunteer of 1792
Inscriptions
Signed in black paint lower left: t.c.
Provenance
Ferdinand Barbedienne, Paris. His sale, Paris, Durand-Ruel, 2-3 June 1892 (lot 25), Tête de volontaire, 1793 [sic]. Bought by Daniel Cottier, Paris. His sale, 1892, Tête de soldat, ff 550 (according to Hippolyte Mireur, Dictionnaire des ventes d'art faites en France . . . [Paris, 1911-12]) (bought in?), with Cottier in 1904. Bought from P. A. B. Widener in May 1908 by Knoedler & Co, New York. Sold on 30 November 1908 to M. de Lagotellerie, 20 Rue de l'Université, Paris (according to Knoedler stock book no. 5: 11591). James S. Inglis, New York. His collection sale, American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1909 (lot 91), A member of the guard. Fischer Gallery, Washington, D.C. (1910), sold to James Parmelee, Washington, D.C. Given to the CMA in 1940.
Exhibition history
The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). French Drawings and Watercolors from French Public and Private Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 6-February 15, 1942). 19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943). Baron Gros, Painter of Battles: The First Romantic Painter. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 8-April 15, 1956). Idea to Image: Preparatory Studies from the Renaissance to Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 19-March 23, 1980). Enrollment of the Volunteers: Thomas Couture and the Painting of History. Springfield Museums - Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA (organizer) (April 13-June 8, 1980); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (July 1-August 30, 1980); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA (September 20-November 2, 1980). Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 28-July 30, 2000).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Thomas Couture (French, 1815–1879)
- Date
- 1848
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 50.8 x 40.5 cm (20 x 15 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of James Parmelee
- Accession no.
- 1940.542
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