Self-Portrait
1861
Painter, French, 1836 - 1904
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 25.1 x 21.4 cm (9 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
framed: 35.6 x 31.4 x 2.5 cm (14 x 12 3/8 x 1 in.) -
Accession
1995.47.9
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Madame Fantin-Latour; sold by 1929 to (Tempelaere, Paris). David David-Weill [1871-1952], Neuilly-sur-Seine, by 1936.[1] (Robert Schmidt, Paris); sold June 1971 to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia; gift 1995 to NGA.
[1] The painting was lent by David-Weill to the 1936 exhibition of Fantin-Latour's work held in Grenoble. During World War II the painting was confiscated by the Nazi Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg (ERR) from the David-Weill collection in France, and recovered at Alt Aussee. The records of the Munich Central Collecting Point indicate that the painting was restituted to France on 11 July 1946, with David-Weill as the presumed owner (Munich property card #181/6; French Receipt for Cultural Objects no. 9A, item no. 77; copies in NGA curatorial files). The painting was returned to the David-Weill family in September 1946 (see correspondence from the French Ministere des Affaires Étrangeres in NGA curatorial files). David-Weill was president of the Conseil artistique de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux. His claim for paintings not recovered after the war is published in the Répertoire des biens spoliés en France durant la guerre 1939-1945, Groupe français du conseil de controle, 1947.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1905
Possibly Exposition de l'Atelier de Fantin-Latour, Paris, 1905, no. 41, as Portrait du Maitre (1861).
1929
Galerie de la Renaissance, Paris, 1929
1936
Centenaire de Henri Fantin-Latour, Musée-Bibliothèque de Grenoble, 1936, no. 12, as Portrait de Fantin.
1999
An Enduring Legacy: Masterpieces from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1999-2000, no cat.
2007
Fantin-Latour: de la réalité au rêve, Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, 2007, no. 10, repro.
2013
Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016, pl. 27.
2016
Fantin-Latour: À Fleur de Peau, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris; Musée de Grenoble, 2016, no. 1, repros.
Bibliography
1911
Fantin-Latour, Mme. Catalogue de l’œuvre complet, 1849-1904, de Fantin-Latour. Paris, 1911: no. 170.
2013
Alsdorf, Bridget. Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting. Princeton, 2013: 31, 187, color plate 9.
Inscriptions
upper left: Fantin 61; lower left: 1861
Wikidata ID
Q20188577