Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001013Portrait of Mr. Delvalle
Inscriptions
Inscribed center left: Dubufe
Provenance
Painted for Mr. Delvalle, New Orleans, 1837 [according to description of pendant in 1927 auction catalogue cited below]; by descent in the family of Mr. Delvalle; sold Samuel T. Freeman and Company, Philadelphia, January 17, 1927, lot 80. Samuel Weis, Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1943.
Publications
Emmanuel Bréon, Claude-Marie, Edouard et Guillaume Dubufe: Portraits d’un siècle d’élégance parisienne, exh. cat. (Paris, 1988), p. 93, ill.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Claude Marie Dubufe (French, 1790–1864)
- Date
- 1837
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 81 × 65.2 cm (31 7/8 × 25 5/8 in.); Framed: 91.2 × 75.3 × 7.7 cm (35 7/8 × 29 5/8 × 3 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- nineteenth century
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Samuel Weis
- Accession no.
- 1943.531
Open-access museum record · AT-00001013
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