Provenance · Gift
Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin
This catalog gathers 36 public-domain works given to the museum by Mr. and Mrs. Noah L. Butkin. Every work is held by Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Portrait of a Woman -
Trees and a Stream on a Hillside -
Singers -
Portrait of Elizabeth Spiegel -
In the Forest -
Study of a Shepherd -
Salome with the Head of Saint John the Baptist -
Madeleine Lerolle and Her Daughter Yvonne -
Glaucus and Nydia -
Leaving the Oasis -
The Boatyard -
Young Woman with a Mandolin, Portrait of Louison Köhler -
Portrait of a Woman, possibly Elizabeth Boothby -
English Warship Firing a Salute -
The Curious One -
Landscape Near Paris -
Village Festival -
Homage to a Bishop -
A Forest with Apollo and Daphne -
The Denial of Peter -
View of Saint-Cloud, Near the Seine -
Princess Marie d'Orléans in Her Studio -
Peasants in a Rocky Landscape -
Soldiers Resting (recto) -
Pavilion Near a Mosque (recto) Sketch for Pavilion Near a Mosque (verso) -
In the Park of Saint Cloud -
The Surprised Lovers -
Pavilion Near a Mosque (recto) -
Sketch of a Man with Upraised Arm and Sketch of a Helmet (verso) -
Study of a Child's Head and Study of a Woman's Hand and Drapery -
Sketch for Pavilion Near a Mosque (verso) -
Figure of a Woman -
Soldiers Resting (recto); Sketch of a Man with Upraised Arm and Sketch of a Helmet (verso) -
Lake Memphremagog -
The Lover's Visit -
Pan Pursuing Syrinx
On provenance & the public domain
A credit line — the small "Gift of…" note beside a work on a museum wall — records its provenance: how the object passed from a private hand into a public collection, whether as an outright gift, a bequest left in a will, the purchase from a named endowment, or an entire collection acquired at once. Because these works are in the public domain, anyone can study, share, and reproduce them freely. Browsing by provenance follows the human story behind a museum's holdings — the collectors and benefactors whose generosity put these works where the public can see them.
Every work in this catalog is in the public domain; images come from the museums that hold them.