Cleveland Museum of Art
The Monks
François Marius GranetLinkedCulture matchlcp-aaf9c3db7b99
- Date
- c. 1802–30
- Medium
- watercolor, pen and brown ink on laid paper
- Culture
- France, 18th-19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 74551
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
The French artist François Granet traveled to Rome in 1802, where he became fascinated by the lives of monks and priests, and the cloistered interiors where they lived and worked. For most of his career, these figures and settings remained the primary subject of his work. This drawing shows one such group in the midst of private study and contemplation. In addition to working as an artist, Granet served as curator of the Musée du Louvre beginning in 1824.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Provenance
- Georges Martin du Nord/Galerie B.G. Verte, Paris, France | Mrs. Muriel Butkin [1915-2008] | December 3, 2018: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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