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Jean-Léon Gérôme
French, 1824–1904
Two Soldiers Playing Checkers
1856
Image Caption
Jean-Léon Gérôme, Two Soldiers Playing Checkers, 1856, black and red chalk heightened with white chalk with slight touches of pencil and white gouache on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1656
Medium
black and red chalk heightened with white chalk with slight touches of pencil and white gouache on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 7 11/16 x 10 13/16 in. (19.6 x 27.5 cm)
Object Number
1955.1656
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty-four: French Drawings of the 19th Century. August 28, 1966. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum.. The Academic Tradition: An Exhibition of 19th-Century French Drawings. June 19-Aug. 11, 1968. Cat. by Sarah Whitfield. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Philadelphia Museum of Art.. Second Empire: Art in France under Napoleon III. Oct. 1-Nov. 26, 1978; Detroit Institute of Arts, Jan. 15-March 18, 1979; Grand Palais, Paris, May 11-Aug. 13, 1979. Cass, David B. and Michael M. Floss. Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Jacobson, Ken. Odalisques & Arabesques: Orientalist Photography 1839-1925. London: Quaritch. 2007.
Provenance
Scott and Fowles, New York (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1929).