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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.223
People
Thomas Couture, French (Senlis (Oise) 1815 - 1879 Villiers-le-Bel)
Title
Paul Barroilhet (1810-1871)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of M. Paul Barroilhet / L'Acteur Barroilhet
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1849
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230066

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
100 x 81.9 cm (39 3/8 x 32 1/4 in.)
framed: 125.2 x 106.5 cm (49 5/16 x 41 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.r.: T. C.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
M. Renou (by 1880). Jean-Baptiste Faure, Paris. [Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York (by 1928-1941), sold, March 10, 1941]; to Martin Birnbaum for Grenville L. Winthrop (1941-1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Notes:
Winthrop paid $2800

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.223
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Roger Ballu, Catalogue des oeuvres de Th. Couture exposées au Palais de l'Industrie, exh. cat. (Paris, France, 1880), no. 67
  • [Reproduction only], The International Studio, (July 1928)., repr. in color on cover
  • Catalogue of the Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Art, exh. cat., Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, New York, 1932), no. 12
  • René Huyghe, "L'exposition d'art français à San Francisco", L'Art Vivant (September 1934), p. 362, p. 362
  • Exhibition of French Painting from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day, exh. cat., California Palace of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, 1934), no. 85
  • Exhibition of French Masters from Courbet to Seurat, exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann & Co. (New York, 1937), cat. no. 4
  • Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 7
  • Paul L. Grigaut, "A Thomas Couture Portrait", Bulletin of the University of Michigan Museum of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, MI, 1966 -1967), vol. II, no. 1/2, repr. fig. 3, p. 25
  • Doriece Colle, Collars, Stocks, Cravats: A History and Costume Dating Guide to civilian men's neckpieces, 1655-1900., Rodale Press, Inc. (Emmaus, PA, 1972), repr. p. 165
  • Albert Boime, Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision, brochure, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1980), repr. b/w, X4, p. 403
  • Henry B. Adams, "William Morris Hunt's 'Chef d'oeuvre Inconnu'", Proceedings of the New York State Capitol Symposium, Temporary State Commission on the Restoration of the Capitol (Albany, NY, 1983), p. 98; repr. fig. 74
  • Helen Barbara Weinberg, "Cosmopolitan Attitudes: The Coming of Age of American Art", Paris 1889: American Artists at the Universal Exposition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arst/H. N. Abrams (Philadelphia, PA/New York NY, 1989), p. 37, repr. in b/w fig. 10, p. 36
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 103; repr. as no. 285
  • Chikashi Kitazaki and Mina Oya, ed., Between Reality and Dreams: Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, 2002), p. 31, repr. as fig. 24
  • Bénédicte Pradié, "Pour une redécouverte de l'oeuvre de Thomas Couture portraitiste: à propos de la récente acquisition du portrait de 'La Baronne d'Astier de la Vigerie' par le musée d'Art et d'Archéologie de Senlis", Revue du Louvre : la revue des musées de France (April 2003), no. 2, pp. 62-68, p. 64, repr. in b/w as fig. 2
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), repr. in b/w p. 37, as fig. 39
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), repr. in b/w p. 43, as fig. 38
  • Thomas Couture 1815-1879: Portraits d'une Epoch, Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, France, 2003), p. 8, repr. as fig. 1

Exhibition History

  • Exposition des Oeuvres de Thomas Couture, Palais de l'Industrie, Paris, 01/01/1880 - 12/31/1880
  • Nineteenth Century French Art, Albright Art Gallery, 11/01/1932 - 11/30/1932
  • Exhibition of French Painting from the Fifteenth Century to the Present Day, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 06/08/1934 - 07/08/1934
  • Exhibition of French Masters from Courbet to Seurat, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 03/22/1937 - 04/17/1937
  • Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977
  • France and the Portrait, 1799-1870, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/03/1994 - 01/29/2002

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

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