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Identification and Creation
Object Number
1943.223
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People
Thomas Couture, French (Senlis (Oise) 1815 - 1879
Villiers-le-Bel)
Title
Paul Barroilhet (1810-1871)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Portrait of M. Paul Barroilhet / L'Acteur
Barroilhet
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1849
Culture
French
Location
Level 2, Room 2200, European and American Art, 17th–
19th century, The Emergence of Romanticism in Early
Nineteenth-Century France
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Physical Descriptions
Medium
Oil on canvas
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Dimensions
100 x 81.9 cm (39 3/8 x 32 1/4 in.)
framed: 125.2 x 106.5 cm (49 5/16 x 41 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
Signed: u.r.: T. C.
Provenance
M. Renou (by 1880). Jean-Baptiste Faure, Paris.
[Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York (by 1928-1941),
sold, March 10, 1941]; to Martin Birnbaum for Grenville
L. Winthrop (1941-1943), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum,
1943.
Notes:
Winthrop paid $2800
Acquisition and Rights
Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of
Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.223
Division
European and American Art
Contact
[email protected]
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Publication History
Roger Ballu, Catalogue des oeuvres de Th. Couture
exposées au Palais de l'Industrie, exh. cat. (Paris,
France, 1880), no. 67
[Reproduction only], The International Studio, (July
1928)., repr. in color on cover
Catalogue of the Exhibition of Nineteenth Century
French Art, exh. cat., Albright Art Gallery (Buffalo, New
York, 1932), no. 12
René Huyghe, "L'exposition d'art français à San
Francisco", L'Art Vivant (September 1934), p. 362, p.
362
Exhibition of French Painting from the Fifteenth
Century to the Present Day, exh. cat., California Palace
of the Legion of Honor (San Francisco, 1934), no. 85
Exhibition of French Masters from Courbet to Seurat,
exh. cat., Jacques Seligmann & Co. (New York, 1937),
cat. no. 4
Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and
Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, PreColumbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville
Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum
(Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 7
Paul L. Grigaut, "A Thomas Couture Portrait", Bulletin of
the University of Michigan Museum of Art, University of
Michigan Museum of Art (Ann Arbor, MI, 1966 -1967),
vol. II, no. 1/2, repr. fig. 3, p. 25
Doriece Colle, Collars, Stocks, Cravats: A History and
Costume Dating Guide to civilian men's neckpieces,
1655-1900., Rodale Press, Inc. (Emmaus, PA, 1972),
repr. p. 165
Albert Boime, Thomas Couture and the Eclectic Vision,
Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven, CT and
London, England, 1980), repr. b/w, X4, p. 403
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Henry B. Adams, "William Morris Hunt's 'Chef d'oeuvre
Inconnu'", Proceedings of the New York State Capitol
Symposium , Temporary State Commission on the
Restoration of the Capitol (Albany, NY, 1983), p. 98;
repr. fig. 74
Helen Barbara Weinberg, "Cosmopolitan Attitudes: The
Coming of Age of American Art", Paris 1889: American
Artists at the Universal Exposition, Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arst/H. N. Abrams (Philadelphia,
PA/New York NY, 1989), p. 37, repr. in b/w fig. 10, p. 36
Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900
in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue
including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum ,
Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA,
1990), p. 103; repr. as no. 285
Chikashi Kitazaki, ed., Between Reality and Dreams:
Nineteenth Century British and French Art from the
Winthrop Collection of the Fogg Art Museum , exh. cat.,
National Museum of Western Art (Ueno, Japan, 2002),
p. 31, repr. as fig. 24
Bénédicte Pradié, "Pour une redécouverte de l'oeuvre
de Thomas Couture portraitiste: à propos de la récente
acquisition du portrait de 'La Baronne d'Astier de la
Vigerie' par le musée d'Art et d'Archéologie de Senlis",
Revue du Louvre : la revue des musées de France (April
2003), no. 2, pp. 62-68, p. 64, repr. in b/w as fig. 2
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-
Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L.
Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press
(New York, NY, 2003), repr. in b/w p. 37, as fig. 39
Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler,
Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat.,
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des
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Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), repr. in b/w p.
43, as fig. 38
Thomas Couture 1815-1879: Portraits d'une Epoch,
Somogy Éditions d'Art (Paris, France, 2003), p. 8, repr.
as fig. 1
Exhibition History
Exposition des Oeuvres de Thomas Couture, Palais de
l'Industrie, Paris, 01/01/1880 - 12/31/1880
Nineteenth Century French Art, Albright Art Gallery,
11/01/1932 - 11/30/1932
Exhibition of French Painting from the Fifteenth
Century to the Present Day, California Palace of the
Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 06/08/1934 07/08/1934
Exhibition of French Masters from Courbet to Seurat,
Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 03/22/1937 04/17/1937
Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and
drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, PreColumbian art : selected from the collection of
Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum,
Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977
France and the Portrait, 1799-1870, Harvard University
Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/03/1994 - 01/29/2002
32Q: 2200 19th Century, Harvard Art Museums,
Cambridge, 11/01/2014
Subjects and Contexts
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