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Portrait of Arsène Alexandre

Alphonse Legros

French, 1837–1911

Portrait of Arsène Alexandre

1896

Medium gold point on paper
Dimensions Overall: 14 5/16 x 9 15/16 in. (36.4 x 25.2 cm)
Object Number 1955.1682
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status Off View

Image Caption

Alphonse Legros, Portrait of Arsène Alexandre, 1896, gold point on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1682

Select Bibliography

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty: A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Birmingham (AL): Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama.. Fin de Siècle Faces: Portraiture in the Age of Proust. Sept. 25-Nov. 20, 1988. Cat. by Heather McPherson. New York: The Frick Collection. Whistler and Montesquiou: The Butterfly and the Bat. Nov. 13, 1995-Jan. 28, 1996. (Cat. by Edgar Munhall.. Paris: Flammarion). Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964. Brooke, David S., Rafael Fernandez, and Beth Carver Wees. Three Cheers for the Twenty-Fifth. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1980.

Provenance

Arsène Alexandre, Paris; Robert, Count de Montesquiou-Fézensac, Paris (received as a gift from Alexandre about 1905); F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris (bought by Robert Sterling Clark, 1936).

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