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AT-00000911Portrait of an Artist
by Ary Scheffer
Provenance
Robert Hoe (d, 1909), New York [according to reverse of Weitzner photo in curatorial file]. M. Knoedler & Co [according to reverse of Weitzner photo in curatorial file and mount of photo in the Witt Library, London]. Sold Christie's, London, 17 January 1969, lot. 137 to Gregory (possibly agent for Weitzner). Sold by Julius H. Weitzner, London, to the Art Institute, 1969.
Publications
Alfred Werner, "The Author of the 'Lorelei' Speaks on Art," Art News (Sep. 1956): 42 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1969-70): 5 (ill.), 24.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ary Scheffer (Dutch, active France, 1795–1858)
- Date
- c. 1830
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73 × 59.8 cm (28 3/4 × 23 1/2 in.); Framed: 97.5 × 84.2 × 6.1 cm (38 3/8 × 33 1/8 × 2 3/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- Netherlands
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Silvain and Arma Wyler Foundation
- Accession no.
- 1969.627
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