id:			119020
accession number:	1940.1207
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1940.1207
updated:		2024-03-26 01:57:39.782000

Portrait of a Man, c. 1795. Heinrich Friedrich Füger (German, 1751–1818). Watercolor on ivory in a gilt metal frame; framed: 8.2 x 7.7 cm (3 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.); unframed: 7.2 x 7 cm (2 13/16 x 2 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1940.1207

title:				Portrait of a Man
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creation date:			c. 1795
creation date earliest:		1790
creation date latest:		1800
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creditline:			The Edward B. Greene Collection
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culture:	Austria, late 18th century
technique:	watercolor on ivory in a gilt metal frame
department:	European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	P - German before 1800
type:		Portrait Miniature
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CREATORS

* Heinrich Friedrich Füger (German, 1751–1818)  - artist
Heinrich Füger was born in Heilbronn, a small town in south-western Germany midway between Heidelberg and Stuttgart, on December 8, 1751. By age eight, he was already painting miniature portraits; however, at age fifteen, he became discouraged with art and decided to study law. He returned to art, and began study with the historical painter Adam Friedrich Oeser in Leipzig. Füger's work caught the attention of the British and Swedish ambassadors to the court of Saxony at Dresden; where he achieved considerable success. In 1774 he went to Vienna and under the patronage of the empress Maria Theresa, he painted many portraits of the imperial family and Viennese aristocracy. In 1776, he moved to Italy, where he studied classical art and the works of Raphael and Anton Raphael Mengs, and he produced both miniatures and important large-scale works. Füger returned to Vienna in 1783. There he became vice-director of the Academy of Fine Arts, and in 1795 its director. As court painter he became the most popular portrait artist in Vienna. However, by about 1798, an eye ailment prevented his painting miniatures and he returned to painting large-scale pictures. He died in Vienna on November 5, 1818.
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measurements: Framed: 8.2 x 7.7 cm (3 1/4 x 3 1/16 in.); Unframed: 7.2 x 7 cm (2 13/16 x 2 3/4 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives
	opening date:   2013-11-10T00:00:00
	<i>Disembodied: Portrait Minatures and their Contemporary Relatives</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 10, 2013-February 16, 2014).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': '<em>Miniatur-Porträts.</em> Nordböhmisches Gewerbemuseum, Reichenberg, Germany (1903).', 'opening_date': '1903-01-01T00:00:00'}

* {'description': '<em>Miniaturen Ausstellung</em>, Salons Friedmann &amp; Weber, Berlin, Germany (1906).', 'opening_date': '1906-01-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	Ritter von Metaxa Collection, Vienna, Austria
	date: 1903
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	(Sale: Vienna, April 4, 1921, lot 35, illustrated and called "School of Füger")
	date: April 4, 1921
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	(Sale: Gluckselig, Vienna, Oct. 26, 1927, lot 12)
	date: Oct. 26, 1927
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	Viktor E. Pollak, Vienna, Austria
	date: -1938
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	(Sale: Sotheby's, London, November 20, 1938, lot 124)
	date: November 20, 1938
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	Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1938-1940
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1940-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Lister, Raymond, "The Edward B. Greene Collection of Portrait Miniatures", <em>Apollo</em> LV (Jan. 1952).
	page number: 	no. 82, p. 37, repr. pl. XLI
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. Portrait Miniatures ; <em>The Edward B. Greene Collection.</em> 1951.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 37, cat. 82; Reproduced: plate XLI
	url:		https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures

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IMAGES

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full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1940.1207/1940.1207_full.tif