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Portrait of Paul Sérusier
Émile Bernard1893
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Throughout his career, Émile Bernard made numerous portraits of his friends and colleagues, including this image of the painter Paul Sérusier. The two artists traveled to Florence in 1893 to study Renaissance painting and exchanged portraits of one another while they were there. Bernard portrayed his friend formally, presenting him frontally alongside a notation that the drawing was made during his Italian travels.
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- Title: Portrait of Paul Sérusier
- Creator: Émile Bernard (French, 1868-1941)
- Date Created: 1893
- Physical Dimensions: Sheet: 41.9 x 27.7 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 52.2 x 36.7 cm (20 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
- Provenance: Paul Sérusier [1864-1927], Morlaix, Marcel Guérin [1873-1948], Paris, possibly Marguerite Sérusier [1879–1950], Châteauneuf-du-Faou, Henriette Boutaric [?-1983], Paris, (sale, Christie's, London, Dec. 9, 1998, no. 210, sold to William Kelly Simpson, Katonah, NY), William Kelly Simpson [1928-2017], Katonah, NY, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.76
- Medium: gouache and watercolor on thin beige wove paper
- Inscriptions: inscribed, lower left, in diluted ink: Portrait de Paul Séruzier / Emile Bernard / Florence 1893
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of William Kelly Simpson
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 2018.76
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