Portrait of Jean Ajalbert

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Portrait of Jean Ajalbert

Eugène CarrièreLinkedCulture matchlcp-9645c741f5f0

Date
c. 1893
Medium
charcoal with white chalk
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Drawings
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
166868

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This drawing is one of several portraits that Eugène Carrière created of the naturalist writer and art critic Jean Ajalbert. Both were part of the same Symbolist artistic and literary circles in Paris during the late 19th century. Portraiture was a favorite genre for Carrière, who often portrayed his friends and colleagues. Here, Ajalbert looks forward directly, seemingly in contrast with his otherwise hazy visage and surroundings. One of Eugène Carrière's portraits of Jean Ajalbert was translated to lithography and included as a frontispiece to his novel Sao Van Di (1905).

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Credit line
Bequest of Muriel Butkin
Provenance
1920: (Manzi, Joyant & Cie, Paris, Carrière Atelier sale, Feb. 2-3, 1920, no. 168) | By 1923-1928: Anson Conger Goodyear [1877-1964], Buffalo, New York | 1928: (Anderson Galleries, New York, Goodyear collection sale, Feb. 16, 1928, no. 14) | ?-1976: (Shepherd Gallery, New York, sold to Muriel Butkin, Shaker Heights, OH) | 1976-2009: Muriel Butkin [1916-2008], Shaker Heights, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 2009-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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