ART TRACKERSConnecting fine art to people
Platform OverviewPlatform SecurityPricingTechnology OverviewTags & PlaquesWhat is UAINLegal & Compliance
GovernmentTribal NationsArtistsUniversity & CollegesServicesProcurement
InstitutionsExploreMuseum Collections
Artists
Why Art TrackersAboutContactBlogDocumentationCareers
Request demo
Platform OverviewPlatform SecurityPricingTechnology OverviewTags & PlaquesWhat is UAINLegal & Compliance
GovernmentTribal NationsArtistsUniversity & CollegesServicesProcurement
InstitutionsExploreMuseum Collections
Artists
Why Art TrackersAboutContactBlogDocumentationCareers
Request demo
Art Trackers logo
ART TRACKERS
Connecting fine art to people

Connecting fine art to people. Preserving cultural legacy through technology.

Platform

FeaturesHow It WorksSecurityIntegrations

Government

For Cities & CountiesComplianceResourcesCase Studies

Resources

DocumentationHelp CenterBlog

Company

About UsCareersNewsContact Us

© 2026 Art Trackers LLC. All rights reserved.

Privacy PolicyTerms of ServiceAccessibility
    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    James Vibert, Sculptor
    Ferdinand Hodler. James Vibert, Sculptor, 1907. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00000871

    Public data from the Art Institute of Chicago. Learn more

    James Vibert, Sculptor

    by Ferdinand Hodler

    Inscriptions

    signed, l.r.: "1907 F. Hodler"

    Provenance

    Willy Russ-Young (1877–1959), Serrières-Neuchâtel, Switzerland, by 1921 [verso label]. Sold through Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, to Frederic Clay Bartlett (1873–1953), Chicago, July 1924 [invoice from Galerie Fischer to Frederic Clay Bartlett, July 16, 1924, copy in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.

    Exhibition history

    Bern, Kunstmuseum, Hodler Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, August 20-October 23, 1921, cat. 370. Boston, Art Club, 1925. Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Exhibition of French Paintings from a Well-Known Collection, 1925, no cat. Chicago, Art Institute, A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 319. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 20th Century Portraits, December 9, 1942-January 24, 1943, no cat. no., p. 58 (ill.); traveled to Baltimore Museum of Art, February 12-March 7, 1943, and Worcester Art Museum, March 21-April 18, 1943.

    Publications

    Loosli, Carl Albert, Ferdinand Hodler, vol. 2 (Zurich: Rascher, 1920), pl. 97. de Mandach, Conrad, Hodler Gedächtnis-Ausstellung, exh. cat. (Bern: Kunstmuseum Bern, 1921), cat. 370. Bulletin of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts 14 (April 1925), p. 32. Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial from the Birch Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1926), pp. 18, 19 (ill.), 53. Zabel, M. D., “An American Gallery of Modern Painting,” Art and Archaeology 26 (December 1928), pp. 232 (ill.), 235. Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial, from the Birch-Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1929), pp. 26-27 (ill.), 59. Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of a Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, exh. cat. (Chicago: Lakeside Press, R. R. Donnelley & Sons Co., 1934), cat. 319. Wheeler, Monroe, 20th Century Portraits, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1942), no cat. no., p. 58 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Paintings in the Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial, from the Birch Bartlett Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1946), pp. 30-31 (ill.), 57. Myers, Bernard Samuel, The German Expressionists: A Generation in Revolt (New York: Praeger, 1957), p. 28 (pl. 7). Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), p. 217. Speyer, A. James, and Courtney Graham Donnell, Twentieth Century European Painting (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), p. 46, no. 2B3. Brettell, Richard R., “The Bartletts and the Grande Jatte: Collecting Modern Painting in the 1920s,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), p. 14. Heller, Reinhold, “Ferdinand Hodler: A Unique Note in the Birch Bartlett Collection,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, 2 (1986), pp. 166-87, fig. 1 (color ill.). Dorn, Roland, et al., Van Gogh Face to Face: The Portraits, exh. cat. (Detroit Institute of Arts/Thames & Hudson, 2000), pp. 238, fig. 214 (color ill.), 269.

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Ferdinand Hodler / Swiss, 1853-1918
    Date
    1907
    Medium
    Oil on canvas
    Dimensions
    64.7 × 66 cm (25 1/2 × 26 in.)
    Type
    Painting
    Classification
    painting
    Style
    Post-Impressionism
    Place
    Switzerland
    Department
    Modern Art
    Credit line
    Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
    Accession no.
    1926.212

    More by Ferdinand Hodler in museum collections

    • Day (Truth)

      Ferdinand Hodler

      1896/98 · Painting

      Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00001644
    • Study for Day (Truth)

      Ferdinand Hodler

      1896/98 · Drawing

      Public collection via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00005875
    • The Dream of the Shepherd (Der Traum des Hirten)

      Ferdinand Hodler

      1896 · Painting

      Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00016342

    Open-access museum data

    This record comes from the open-access collection data that the Art Institute of Chicago publishes for unrestricted use (Creative Commons Zero). Art Trackers shows a selection of the museum's published fields. The Art Institute of Chicago is not an Art Trackers client and has not reviewed or endorsed this page; the museum's own website is the authoritative record.

    • View this work at the Art Institute of Chicago
    • The Art Institute of Chicago: open-access terms

    Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

    Open-access museum record · AT-00000871

    Powered by Art Trackers