About the Artwork
Portrait of an Artist
19th century
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French
French
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 29 1/4 × 23 3/8 inches (74.3 × 59.4 cm) Framed: 38 3/4 × 34 1/8 × 5 1/2 inches (98.4 × 86.7 × 14 cm)
Paintings
European Painting
City of Detroit Purchase
30.274
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, false signature, lower right: Th. Gericault
Provenance
(collection of Axel Beskow, Los Angeles, California, USA)
1930-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Heil, Walter. "A Portrait by Gericault," Bulletin of the DIA 11, no. 7 (April 1930): XC–XCII, pp. XC–XCII (ill.) [as by Theodore Gericault].
Heil, Walter and Clyde H. Burroughs. Catalogue of Paintings in the Permanent Collection of The Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit. Detroit, 1930, unpaginated, no. 83 (ill.) [as Théodore Géricault].
Exhibition of French Paintings from the 15th Century to the Present Day. Exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor. San Francisco, 1934, pp. 51-52, cat. 105, (repr.) [cat. compiled by W. Heil].
A Survey of French Painting. Cat., Baltimore Museum of Art. Baltimore, 1934, p. 15, no. 15, pl. 32 [cat. compiled by S. Bourgeois].
Huyghe, R. "L'exposition d'art francais de San Francisco," L'Art Vivant (September 1934): p. 362 [as by Gericault].
One Hundred Years, French Painting; 1820-1920. Cat., Willian Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. Kansas City, 1935, no. 30.
Benson, E.M. Problems of Portraiture. Washington, D.C., 1937, p. 2.
The Romantic Revolt; Gros, Gericault, Delacroix, Daumier, Guys. Cat., Springfield Museum of Fine Arts. Springfield, 1938, no. 6 [cat. compiled by A. Bausman].
French Painting from David to Toulouse Lautrec. Cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1941, pp. 19-20, no. 61 [cat. compiled by H. Welile].
Richardson, E.P., ed. Catalogue of Paintings. Cat., DIA. Detroit, 1944, p. 51, no. 83 [as Theodore Gericault].
Pach, W. "Gericault in America," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. 1 (April 1945): pp. 229, 238, (fig. 4) [questions authenticity despite signature].
"Gericault's Self Portrait," Pictures on Exhibit (January 1950): pp. 8-9.
From David to Courbet. Cat., DIA. Detroit, 1950, p. 20, no. 25 [cat. compiled by P. Grigaut].
The Beginnings of Modern Paintings. Cat., Joslyn Memorial Art Museum. Omaha, 1951.
The Romantic Circle. Cat., Wadsworth Atheneum. Hartford, 1952, p. 13, no. 18 [cat. compiled by C. Cunningham].
French Pre-Impressionist Painters of the 19th Century. Cat., Winnipeg Art Gallery. Winnipeg, 1954, pp. 13-14, no. 16 [cat. compiled by F. Eckhardt].
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French, Portrait of an Artist, 19th century, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 30.274.
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