Café in Constantinople
1847
Alexandre Bida
Alexandre Bida (French, 1823–1895)
Drawings
Café in Constantinople, 1847. Alexandre Bida (French, 1823–1895). Brush and black and gray ink, graphite, and stylus on white wove paper coated with a white ground; sheet: 40.7 x 29.2 cm (16 x 11 1/2 in.); image: 38.2 x 25.9 cm (15 1/16 x 10 3/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2008.381
- Maker/Artist
- Bida, Alexandre
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- brush and black and gray ink, graphite, and stylus on white wove paper coated with a white ground
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 40.7 x 29.2 cm (16 x 11 1/2 in.); Image: 38.2 x 25.9 cm (15 1/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: signed, lower right, in black ink and stylus: Alex Bida
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 2008.381
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Exhibitions
- French Master Drawings from the Collection of Muriel Butkin, Possibly Paris Salon of 1847, no. 1678.a<br>a. At least since the purchase of the drawing from Galerie Jacques Fischer-Chantal Kiener in 1978, it has been identified as one of the two drawings Bida exhibited in the 1847 Salon: no. "1678 - Café à Constantinople; dessin." (The other, no. 1679, was "Café sur le Bosphore.") The references in the Literature section here are to the Salon drawing. It should be noted that an entry on the artist by Josette Galiègue mentions a "Café à Constantinople" being bought by the French government during Bida's life; see Association Générale des Conservateurs des Collections Publiques de France, Dessins français du XIXe siècle dans les musées de Picardie, exh. cat., Musée Boucher de Perthes, Abbeville et al. (1994), 43. No such drawing, however, is included in the Bida list in the Musée du Louvre et Musée de Versailles, inventaire général des dessins de l'école française (Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1933).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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