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Collection Online as of March 28, 2023

Portrait of a Man

1800

Jean-Urbain Guérin

(French, 1760–1836)

France, 19th century

Watercolor on ivory in a silver gilt mount and wooden frame

Framed: 13.7 x 12.5 cm (5 3/8 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 7.6 x 6.5 cm (3 x 2 9/16 in.)

The Edward B. Greene Collection 1943.642

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed lower right: J. Guerin.f.

Provenance
1921
(Leo Schidlof (1886-1966), Austria, Vienna)
1924-1938
Viktor E. Pollak, Vienna, Austria
November 31, 1938
(Sale: Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 31, 1938, lot 127)
1938-1943
Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1943-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Citations
Illustrated in the Catalogue of 7th June, 1921, Schidlof, Vienna, Austria No. 119
Lister, Raymond, "The Edward B. Greene Collection of Portrait Miniatures", Apollo LV (Jan. 1952). cat. no. 64, repr. pl. XXXII
Gesellschaft der Bilder- und Miniaturenfreunde (Vienna, Austria), and Leo Schidlof. Katalog der Internationalen Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina, Wien, mai-juni, 1924. Wien: Gesellschaft der Bilder- und Miniaturenfreunde, 1924. cat. no. 423
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures; The Edward B. Greene Collection. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951. Reproduced: plate XXXII, no. 64; Mentioned: 35 archive.org
Exhibition history

Internationalen Miniaturen-Ausstellung, Albertina, Vienna, Austria (May-June, 1924).

Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993).

Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1943.642