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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.836
People
Félix Henri Bracquemond, French (Paris 1833 - 1914 Sèvres)
Title
Self-Portrait
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1853
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297589

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Pastel, graphite, and gold-toned paint on wove paper, attached to paper, attached to linen or canvas
Dimensions
92.9 x 68.2 cm (36 9/16 x 26 7/8 in.)
stretcher: 105.5 x 75.5 cm (41 9/16 x 29 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alfred Morrison, England, by 1878; Mrs. Mary Davis, London, by 1907; Sir Edmund Davis, J.P., London; his sale, Christie's, London, July 7, 1939, no. 29 (£90.6); acquired at that sale through Martin Birnbaum by Grenville L. Winthrop; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.836
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Philippe Burty, "Silhouettes d'artistes contemporaines. VI. Le peintre et graveur Félix Bracquemond.", L'Art (1878), pp. 294
  • Alfred de Lostalot, "Les artistes contemporains: M. Félix Bracquemond, peintre-graveur" (parts 1-3), Gazette des beaux-arts (June 1, 1884), ser. 2, 29, no. 6, pp 420-26, 517-24
  • Alfred de Lostalot, "Les artistes contemporains: M. Félix Bracquemond, peintre-graveur" (parts 1-3), Gazette des beaux-arts (August 1, 1884), ser. 2, 30, no. 2, pp. 155-61
  • Henri Béraldi, Les graveurs du XXIe siècle: Guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes, L. Conquet (Paris, 1885), no. 1
  • Léonce Bénédite, Catalogue des oeuvres exposées de Bracquemond. Expositions périodiques d'estampes: première exposition, exh. cat., Librairies-imprimeries réunies (Paris, France, 1897), p. 13
  • Catalogue de l'exposition de gravures exécutées par M. Félix Bracquemond et Sir F. Seymour Haden précédé d'un préface par M. Gustave Geffroy, exh. cat., Imp. Manzi, Joyant (Asnières, February 1909), p. III
  • Frank Weitenkampf, "Félix Bracquemond: An Etcher of Birds", Prints and Their Makers, ed. Fitz Roy Carrington, The Century Co. (New York, 1912), p. 220
  • Robert H. Getscher, Félix Bracquemond and the Etching Process: An Exhibition of Prints & Drawings from the John Taylor Arms Collection, exh. cat., The College of Wooster (Wooster, OH, 1974), p. 13
  • Agnes Mongan, "A Bracquemond Print and Drawing", A Portfolio Honoring Harold Hugo for His Contribution to Scholarly Printing, Meriden-Stinehour Inc. (Lunenburg, VT, 1978), quire 11
  • Jean-Paul Bouillon, Félix Bracquemond, le réalisme absolu: Oeuvre gravé, 1849-1859. Catalogue raisonné, Skira (Geneva, 1987), pp. 8, 9, cover illustration
  • Charlotte van Rappard-Boon, Félix Bracquemond, 1833-1914, exh. cat., Zwolle, Waanders (Amsterdam, 1993), pg. 7, fig. 1
  • 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), cat. no. 4, repr. (color)
  • Jean-Paul Bouillon, Félix Bracquemond 1833-1914: Graveur et céramiste, exh. cat., Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2003), fig. 4 (color)
  • Christopher Riopelle, Harvard's Winthrop Collection: Nineteenth-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, exh. cat., National Gallery Company Limited (London, 2003), p. 31, cat. 18, ill.
  • 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), no. 4, repr.
  • Jean-Paul Bouillon, Bracquemond/Goncourt, exh. cat., Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, 2004), p. 17, notes 2, 3
  • Pierre Rosenberg, Only in America: One Hundred Paintings in American Museums Unmatched in European Collections, Skira (Milan, 2006), p. 174, repr.
  • Wolf Lepenies, Auguste Comte: Die Macht der Zeichen, Carl Hanser Verlag (Munich, 2010), repr. p. 39 in b/w as fig. 6
  • Estampes & dessins: Catalogue X, auct. cat., Galerie Terrades (Paris, April 2011), under no. 37
  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 60-61, repr. p. 61 as fig. 20
  • Sarah Lees and Richard R. Brettell, Innovative Impressions: Prints by Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro, exh. cat., Philbrook Museum of Art (Tulsa, 2018), pp. 14-15

Exhibition History

  • Salon de 1853, Menus-Plaisirs, Paris
  • Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Salon de 1907, Société des Beaux Arts, Paris
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

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