Portrait of a Man

Jean-Urbain Guérin1800

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Title: Portrait of a Man
Creator: Jean-Urbain Guérin (French, 1760-1836)
Date Created: 1800
Physical Dimensions: Framed: 13.7 x 12.5 cm (5 3/8 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 7.6 x 6.5 cm (3 x 2 9/16 in.)
Provenance: (Leo Schidlof (1886-1966), Austria, Vienna), Viktor E. Pollak, Vienna, Austria, (Sale: Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 31, 1938, lot 127), Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Type: Portrait Miniature
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.642
Medium: watercolor on ivory in a silver gilt mount and wooden frame
Inscriptions: signed lower right: J. Guerin.f.
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Culture: France, 19th century
Credit Line: The Edward B. Greene Collection
Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
Accession Number: 1943.642

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