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Château Interior
V. Germain (French)1834
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Little is known today about V. Germain, the artist who produced this drawing. Here, he focused on an interior scene with exacting detail, using a small group of figures at the sheet’s center to emphasize the massive scale of the castle where they have gathered.
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Details
- Title: Château Interior
- Creator: V. Germain (French)
- Date Created: 1834
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 41.9 x 67.1 cm (16 1/2 x 26 7/16 in.)
- Provenance: Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, NY, Shepherd Gallery, New York, NY, Mr. Noah L. Butkin [1918-1980], Mrs. Muriel Butkin [1915-2008], the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.1063
- Medium: pen and ink, watercolor, gouache with graphite underdrawing on heavy cream wove paper
- Inscriptions: signed and dated, lower left, in black ink: “V. Germain 17 Juin 1834”
- Fun Fact: Germain focused on a variety of textured fabrics and luxury materials in this depiction of a castle interior.
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Collection: Drawings
- Accession Number: 2018.1063
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