Portrait of Philippe-Grégoire Delaroche, the Artist's Younger Son

Artist: Paul Delaroche (French, 1797–1856)

November 1851

European Art

Not on view
Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

unframed: 24 3/4 × 16 3/16 in. (62.9 × 41.1 cm)

Credit Line

George A., Class of 1954, and Nancy P. Shutt Acquisition Fund

Accession Number

2013.93.1

Culture
Period

19th century

Classification
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Provenance

Provenance

Paul Delaroche; by descent within the Delaroche-Vernet family; from whom acquired by a private collector; by whom offered for sale at Sotheby’s, New York, 31 January 2013, lot 279 (bought in).
Bibliography
  • "Acquisitions 2014," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2014), 21, ill
  • Claude Allemand-Cosneau and Isabelle Julia, Paul Delaroche: un peintre dans l'histoire, exh. cat. (Nantes: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1999), 169, 322–33, no. 85
  • Stephen Bann, Paul Delaroche: History Painted (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1997), 235–237, 298, no. 148, fig. 148
  • Jules Goddé, Exposition des oeuvres de Paul Delaroche, exh. cat. (Paris: Goupil & Cie, 1858), no. 43, pl. 57
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Additional information

Object/Work type

portraits

Subject

boys son

Signed

Novembre 1851 (Nice)

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