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Portrait of Violinist Jean Vidal (1789–1867)
Adrien Victor Auger (French, 1787-1854)1808
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This portrait was commissioned to commemorate the first musical triumph of the 19-year-old violinist Jean Vidal, upon his graduation from the Conservatoire de Musique, Paris. The young musician’s direct gaze and confident swagger are echoed by the artist’s superlative draftsmanship. The portrait celebrates the youthful bravado of the musician as well as the artist; Auger was only 21 years old when he made the drawing.
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- Title: Portrait of Violinist Jean Vidal (1789–1867)
- Creator: Adrien Victor Auger (French, 1787-1854)
- Date Created: 1808
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 75.4 x 54.1 cm (29 11/16 x 21 5/16 in.); Sheet with border: 91.5 x 64.4 cm (36 x 25 3/8 in.)
- Provenance: Family of the artist, by descent, (Galerie J. Kugel, Paris), (Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg), (W. M. Brady & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH), Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Drawing
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2013.47
- Medium: black and gray chalk, with touches of white chalk, on tan wove paper
- Inscriptions: inscribed, bottom left, in pen and brown ink: Victor Auger, Elève de David, fecit; bottom right, in pen and brown ink: anno 1808; watermark, upper left: WHATMAN / 1801
- Department: Drawings
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: John L. Severance Fund
- Collection: DR - French
- Accession Number: 2013.47
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