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Alphonse Legros
French, 1837–1911
Portrait of Arsène Alexandre
1896
Image Caption
Alphonse Legros, Portrait of Arsène Alexandre, 1896, gold point on paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1682
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
Select Bibliography
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. 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. 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. 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. 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).
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).