Three Figures with a Dog (probably 1800s): Art, History and Details

Three Figures with a Dog (probably 1800s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Jean-Michel the Younger Moreau (French, 1741–1814).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

An accomplished draftsman in eighteenth-century France, Moreau the Younger produced numerous designs for book illustrations of which this may be an example. In this scene a woman directs the hand of a man as he writes. Raising her left hand, she gestures to the solider to remain at a distance while the small dog reacts to this peculiar encounter.

Object facts

• Title: Three Figures with a Dog
• Date: probably 1800s
• Creator attribution: Jean-Michel the Younger Moreau (French, 1741–1814)
• Culture: France
• Type: Drawing
• Technique: Pen and black ink with brown and gray washes and traces of white gouache (brim of standing man’s hat)
• Dimensions: Overall: 14 x 9.9 cm (5 1/2 x 3 7/8 in.); Sheet: 7.9 x 4.9 cm (3 1/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
• Collection: DR - French
• Department: Drawings
• Accession number: 2017.216

Collection credit

Bequest of Muriel Butkin

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