Portrait of an Artist

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1830

Ary Scheffer (Dutch, active France, 1795–1858)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Ary Scheffer
Title: Portrait of an Artist
Place: Netherlands (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1825–1835
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 73 × 59.8 cm (28 3/4 × 23 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Silvain and Arma Wyler Foundation
Reference Number: 1969.627
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Alfred Werner, “The Author of the ‘Lorelei’ Speaks on Art,” Art News (Sep. 1956): 42 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1969-70): 5 (ill.), 24.

Robert Hoe (d, 1909), New York [according to reverse of Weitzner photo in curatorial file]. M. Knoedler & Co [according to reverse of Weitzner photo in curatorial file and mount of photo in the Witt Library, London]. Sold Christie’s, London, 17 January 1969, lot. 137 to Gregory (possibly agent for Weitzner). Sold by Julius H. Weitzner, London, to the Art Institute, 1969.

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