Detail View: The AMICA Library: The Departure of Jacob
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1981.58
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AMICA Library Year:
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2002
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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Boucher, François
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Creator Nationality:
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European; French
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1703 - 1770
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Birth Place:
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Paris
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Creator Death Place:
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Paris
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Creator Name-CRT:
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François Boucher
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Title:
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Pastoral Scene with Family at Rest
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Title Type:
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Alternate
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Title:
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Femme assise avec son enfant
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Title Type:
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Foreign
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Title:
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The Departure of Jacob
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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1729
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Creation Start Date:
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1729
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Creation End Date:
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1729
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Creation Date:
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1750s
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Creation Start Date:
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1750
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Creation End Date:
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1759
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Creation Date:
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c. 1755
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Creation Start Date:
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1750
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Creation End Date:
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1760
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Materials and Techniques:
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pen and brown and black ink and brush and brown wash, with black chalk, red chalk, and red chalk wash, framing lines in black ink
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Classification Term:
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Drawing
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Dimensions:
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Sheet: 34.8cm x 23.1cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1981.58
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Credit Line:
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Delia E. Holden and L. E. Holden Funds
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Inscriptions:
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ON THREE SEPERATELY APPLIED PIECES OF PAPER (now removed and in departmental file), inscribed in black ink: T[illegible] / Dessin à la[illegible] / Boucher - [illegible] / chez Paulme [illegible] 19[illegible] / [illegible] ; printed in black ink: THOS [S superscript] AGNEW & SONS LTD [TD superscript] / Nº 44133 / LONDON, / 43 OLD BOND STREET / PICCADILLY, W1X 4BA ; printed in black ink: Place de la Borde, Nº 2, près St [t superscript]-Augustin / ALEXANDRE / JOUANEST / DOREUR / Fabricant de bordures dorées / pour tableaux, estampes, / glaces, gouaches et des- / sins, et se charge de / l'encadrement. / A PARIS.
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Rights:
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Provenance:
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[possibly sold, Drouot, Paris, 3-5 May 1858, 48, no. 630: "Le Pâtre, sa Famille et son Troupeau au repos, beau dessin à l'encre de Chine lavé au bistre"]. Marius Paulme, 1905 (according to Agnew's; label from an old backing in cma files confirms Paulme provenance); Mme D., Paris (according to Ananoff/Wildenstein 1976).
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Context:
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Although Boucher painted many pastoral scenes with lovers resting in the country, the inclusion of a mother with children suggests Boucher had a specific story in mind when he made this drawing: the biblical narrative (told in the Book of Genesis) of the Departure of Jacob. Below the canopy of a palm tree, Jacob offers a pear to his nursing wife Rachel. Boucher filled the scene with examples of the wealth Jacob acquired during his years of servitude to Rachel's father, Laban-including a loaded donkey, children, sheep, and cattle. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.AM20020723.tif
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