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).