Portrait of a young man with cropped, dark-brown hair, clothed in a white shirt and black cloak.
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

Portrait of Alphonse Pierre Hennet de Goutel facing slightly to his right. His hair, eyebrows, eyes, and mustache are dark, standing in contrast to his light skin and slightly pursed, blush-pink lips. He wears a flowy, white shirt that buttons around his neck, ballooning out slightly at the gap between the two shirt pieces. A large, black, cloak-like garment with a square collar drapes over his shoulders. Unbuttoned at the top, the cloak opens to reveal the white shirt underneath.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2021.180
People
Théodore Chassériau, French (Ste. Barbe de Samana, S. America 1819 - 1856 Paris)
Title
Alphonse Pierre Hennet de Goutel (1815-1887)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1833 or 1835
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/370191

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
54 × 46 cm (21 1/4 × 18 1/8 in.)
frame: 71 × 62.5 cm (27 15/16 × 24 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso, upper center of frame, graphite: 8[or5]251
  • inscription: verso, upper right of canvas, white chalk: 28[?]1
  • inscription: verso, left side of frame, graphite: 19588
  • inscription: right, above the sitter's shoulder: T. CHASSÉRIAV / 1833

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Alphonse Pierre Hennet de Goutel (1815-1887), by descent; to his son Alfred Pierre Émile Hennet de Goutel (1855-1935), Paris; to his daughter Marguerite Raymonde Cécile de Senilhes (née Hennet de Goutel) (1892-1959), Paris, by 1934; to her daughter Geneviève Lacroix de Cariès Macherel (née de Senilhes) (1920-2000) [1], consigned; to [B. Lorenceau & Cie, Paris, by 1970], sold; to Arthur K. Solomon, Cambridge, 1972; the Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Trust, bequest; to Harvard Art Museums, 2021

Notes
[1] The painting was listed for sale at Galerie Charpentier, Paris, June 23, 1960 as lot 42. It is unknown whether the painting was sold to Geneviève Lacroix de Caiès Macherel, or if it was bought in.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Arthur K. and Mariot F. Solomon Collection
Accession Year
2021
Object Number
2021.180
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exposition de Portraits par Ingres et son Élèves, exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann & Co. (Paris, 1943), pp. 44-45, cat. no. 55
  • Importants tableaux modernes..., auct. cat., Galerie Charpentier (Paris, June 23, 1960), lot 42, repr. as plate VI
  • Marc Sandoz, Théodore Chassériau, 1819-1856: catalogue raisonné des peintures et estampes, Arts et Metiers Graphiques (Paris, France, 1974), pp. 104-105, no. 12, repr. p. 105 as pl. VII
  • Christine Peltre, Théodore Chassériau, Gallimard (Paris, 2001), p. 37, 168
  • Stéphane Guégan and Vincent Pomarède, Théodore Chassériau (1819-1856): The Unknown Romantic; French title: Chassériau: Un autre romantisme, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York, NY and London, England, 2002), p. 23

Exhibition History

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