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Portrait of Jean Ajalbert
About the Artwork
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.
Inscriptions
inscribed in brown ink, lower right: "Eugène Carrière" (estate stamp)
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
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Eugène Carrière (French, 1849–1906)
- Date
- c. 1893
- Medium
- charcoal with white chalk
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 27.4 x 23.7 cm (10 13/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2009.116
More by Eugène Carrière in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00011126
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