Théodore Jubin

1826

Bodinier spent many years in Italy, frequently visiting Naples, where this scene appears to be set. Working from sketches made outdoors, the artist finished paintings like this in his studio in Rome, as the inscription indicates. Théodore Jubin may have been a relative visiting Bodinier during his stay abroad. He is shown resting on a rocky hillside, his walking stick and top hat beside him, perhaps having climbed from the sunlit bay below.

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	20 3/8 x 14 7/16 in. (51.7 x 36.7 cm) Frame: 26 1/8 x 20 1/2 x 3 1/8 in. (66.4 x 52.1 x 7.9 cm)
Object Number	1985.12
Acquisition	Acquired by the Clark, 1985
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Guillaume Bodinier, Théodore Jubin, 1826, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, Acquired by the Clark, 1985.12

Select Bibliography

Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Oppenheimer, Margaret. The French Portrait: Revolution to Restoration. Exhibition catalogue. Northampton, MA: Smith College Museum of Art, 2005. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.

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Provenance

Jubin family, Angers; sale, Angers, 8 Dec. 1984;¹ [Stoppenbach & Delestre, London, sold to the Clark, May 1985];² Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1985. 1. This sale is listed in the entry under Bodinier in Bénézit 2006, vol. 2, p. 689. No public sale in Angers or in Paris is known on this date, so it may have been a private sale. 2. There is no invoice from the dealer in the file. The painting arrived at the Clark for purchase consideration on 3 May 1985.