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Portrait of a Man

1800

Jean-Urbain Guérin

(French, 1760–1836)

France, 19th century

Watercolor on ivory in a silver gilt mount and wooden frame

Framed: 13.7 x 12.5 cm (5 3/8 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 7.6 x 6.5 cm (3 x 2 9/16 in.)

The Edward B. Greene Collection 1943.642

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signed lower right: J. Guerin.f.

Provenance

1921

(Leo Schidlof (1886-1966), Austria, Vienna)

1924-1938

Viktor E. Pollak, Vienna, Austria

November 31, 1938

(Sale: Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 31, 1938, lot 127)

1938-1943

Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art

1943-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Illustrated in the Catalogue of 7th June, 1921, Schidlof, Vienna, Austria No. 119

Lister, Raymond, "The Edward B. Greene Collection of Portrait Miniatures", Apollo LV (Jan. 1952). cat. no. 64, repr. pl. XXXII

Gesellschaft der Bilder- und Miniaturenfreunde (Vienna, Austria), and Leo Schidlof. Katalog der Internationalen Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina, Wien, mai-juni, 1924. Wien: Gesellschaft der Bilder- und Miniaturenfreunde, 1924. cat. no. 423

Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures; The Edward B. Greene Collection. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951. Reproduced: plate XXXII, no. 64; Mentioned: 35 archive.org

Exhibition history

Internationalen Miniaturen-Ausstellung, Albertina, Vienna, Austria (May-June, 1924).

Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993).

Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).

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