1996.218: Self-Portrait

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1996.218

People

Paul Gauguin, French (Paris 1848 - 1903 Fatu-Iwa [Marquesas Islands])

Title

Self-Portrait

Other Titles

Alternate Title: Man in a Toque / L'Homme à la toque

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1875 - c.1877

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/226624

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

46.7 x 38.4 cm (18 3/8 x 15 1/8 in.)
framed: 62.9 x 55.2 cm (24 3/4 x 21 3/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: back of frame: said to be Self-Portrait by Gauguin / Formerly in the Carel F. de Wild Coll. / Formerly owned by M. Knoedler & Co 1915 / Formerly owned by Bernheim-Jeune, Paris
• label: red-bordered label: [printed:] 12249
• label: transferred to backing board from back of frame: No 18228 / Gauguin / Portrait d'hom[ ]
• label: transferred to backing board from back of frame: Scott & Fowles [ ] 11
• label: transferred to backing board from back of frame, red-bordered label: Chelsea / No 21

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Mme Devos, sold July 9, 1910; to [Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, no. 18230], sold; to [Knoedler, New York], sold December 5, 1916; to Carel F.L. de Wild, Larchmont, NY (1), his sale [Anderson Galleries, New York, January 18-19, 1924, lot 309]. [Scott & Fowles, New York], sold (2); to Duncan Stewart Ellsworth, Salisbury, Connecticut, bequeathed; to his wife Helen W. Ellsworth, gift; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1996.

(1) Wildenstein incorrectly lists his middle initials as P.L. rather than F.L.
(2) Wildenstein incorrectly lists "private collection, United States," after Scott & Fowles and before Duncan Ellsworth. Mrs. Ellsworth states that her husband purchased the painting from Scott & Fowles (letter of Dec. 9, 1996, in file).

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Helen W. Ellsworth in memory of Duncan S. Ellsworth '22, nephew of Archibald A. Hutchinson, benefactor of the Hutchinson Wing

Accession Year

1996

Object Number

1996.218

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Gustave Kahn, "Paul Gauguin", L'Art et les Artistes (November 1925), repr. p. 50
• Henri Dorra, "A Suburban Landscape by Gauguin", Smith College Museum of Art Bulletin (1953), pp. 33-34, repr. pp.2-4
• Georges Wildenstein, Gauguin, Beaux-Arts (Paris, France, 1964), no. 25, repr.
• K. Mittelstadt, Gauguin, Self-Portraits (Oxford, England, 1968), no. 2, repr.
• Daniel Wildenstein and Raymond Cogniat, Gauguin (Milan, Italy, 1971), p. 11, repr.
• Wayne V. Anderson, Gauguin's Paradise Lost, Viking Press (New York, NY, 1971), pp. 6-7, 267, repr.
• Lee van Dovski, Die Wahrheit über Gauguin, J.G. Bläschke (Darmstadt, Germany, 1973), no. 81
• Daniel Wildenstein, Gauguin: Premier itinéraire d'un sauvage, catalogue de l'oeuvre peint (1873-1888), Skira/Seuil (Milan, Italy, and Paris, France, 2001), vol. 1, p. 27, no. 23, repr.
• Douglas Druick and Peter Kort Zegers, Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Studio of the South, exh. cat., The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL, 2001), p. 29, repr. as fig. 34
• Daniel Wildenstein, Gauguin: A Savage in the Making. Catalogue Raisonné of the Paintings (1873-1888), Skira (Paris, Milan, New York, 2002), vol. 1, p. 27, cat. no. 23, repr.
• Belinda Thomson, ed., Gauguin: Maker of Myth, exh. cat., Tate Publishing (London, 2010), checklist p. 240, pl. 2
• Sandrine Andrews, Dada: Gauguin, Éditions Arola (Paris, 2015), p. 6, repr.

Exhibition History

• Gauguin: Maker of Myth, Tate Modern, London, 09/30/2010 - 01/16/2011; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 02/21/2011 - 06/05/2011

Subjects and Contexts

• Google Art Project

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