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    Museum collections / The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Woman Reading
    Nicolas Bernard Lépicié. Woman Reading, 1769. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art

    AT-00010361

    Woman Reading

    by Nicolas Bernard Lépicié

    Also known as: Young Girl Reading (La Liseuse or L'Etude)

    View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

    Inscriptions

    signed left: Lépicié / 1769

    Provenance

    Before 1896: Probably Louis-Charles-Léon Courajod [1841-1896], Paris, France Probably 1938: (Probably a public auction, Paris, sold to Georges Wildenstein) 1938-probably 1940: (Georges Wildenstein, Paris, France, owned in share with Galerie Cailleux, confiscated by the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg) Probably 1940-1945: In possession of the Nazis 1945-1947: In possession of the Allies, repatriated to France and restituted to Georges Wildenstein 1947-before 1960: (Georges Wildenstein, New York, NY, his share probably sold to Galerie Cailleux) By 1960: (Galerie Cailleux, Paris, France, sold to Severance and Greta Millikin) 1960-1964: Severance (1895-1985) and Greta Millikin (1903-1989), Cleveland, Ohio, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1964-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio

    Exhibition history

    The Severance and Greta Millikin Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 5-September 2, 1990).

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Cleveland Museum of Art publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Cleveland Museum of Art is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Nicolas-Bernard Lépicié (French, 1735–1784)
    Date
    1769
    Medium
    oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    Framed: 64 x 55 x 5 cm (25 3/16 x 21 5/8 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 46.3 x 37.8 cm (18 1/4 x 14 7/8 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    Painting
    Department
    European Painting and Sculpture
    Credit line
    Severance and Greta Millikin Collection
    Accession no.
    1964.288

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