Artist Unknown
An Artist
c. 1820
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 32 x 25 9/16 in. (81.3 x 65 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.50 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | Off View |
Image Caption
Artist Unknown, An Artist, c. 1820, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.50
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Four: First Two Rooms. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five, Supplement: South Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1959.
Frankfurter, Alfred. "Dark Horse in Williamstown." Art News 54, no. 4 (Summer 1955): 28–31.
"Nineteenth-Century Art in the Berkshires." Think. New York: IBM Corp. Oct. 1955.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972.
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
Grunchec, Philippe. L'Opera completa di Géricault. Classici dell'arte 8. Milan: Rizzoli, 1978.
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.
EUROPEAN PAINTINGS CATALOGUE ENTRY
Provenance
Alexandre Dumas fils, Paris (by 1878–d. 1895, his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2 Mar. 1896, no. 23, as Son portrait, by Théodore Géricault);¹ Jean Dollfus, Paris (until d. 1911, sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 2 Mar. 1912, no. 39, as Portrait d’un artiste, by Géricault, sold to Schültz and Leclerc as agent for Clark); Robert Sterling Clark (1912–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. The painting was offered for sale at Drouot, Paris, 12–13 May 1892, no. 56, as Son Portrait par lui-même, by Géricault, but was bought in.
