id:			123412
accession number:	1943.642
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1943.642
updated:		2025-08-07 20:52:02.005000

Portrait of a Man, 1800. Jean-Urbain Guérin (French, 1760–1836). Watercolor on ivory in a silver gilt mount and wooden frame; framed: 13.7 x 12.5 cm (5 3/8 x 4 15/16 in.); unframed: 7.6 x 6.5 cm (3 x 2 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Edward B. Greene Collection 1943.642

title:				Portrait of a Man
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creation date:			1800
creation date earliest:		1800
creation date latest:		1800
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creditline:			The Edward B. Greene Collection
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	watercolor on ivory in a silver gilt mount and wooden frame
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Portrait Miniature
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CREATORS

* Jean-Urbain Guérin (French, 1760–1836)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 13.7 x 12.5 cm (5 3/8 x 4 15/16 in.); Unframed: 7.6 x 6.5 cm (3 x 2 9/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed lower right: J. Guerin.f.
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America
	opening date:   1993-03-26T04:00:00
	<i>Intimate Images: Portrait Miniatures from Europe and America</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-October 17, 1993).

	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>Internationalen Miniaturen-Ausstellung</em>, Albertina, Vienna, Austria (May-June, 1924).', 'opening_date': '1924-05-01T00:00:00'}

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PROVENANCE

	(Leo Schidlof (1886-1966), Austria, Vienna)
	date: 1921
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	Viktor E. Pollak, Vienna, Austria
	date: 1924-1938
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	(Sale: Sotheby’s, London, Nov. 31, 1938, lot 127)
	date: November 31, 1938
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	Edward B. Greene (1878-1957), Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art
	date: 1938-1943
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1943-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Illustrated in the Catalogue of 7th June, 1921, Schidlof, Vienna, Austria
	page number: 	No. 119
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	Lister, Raymond, "The Edward B. Greene Collection of Portrait Miniatures", <em>Apollo</em> LV (Jan. 1952).
	page number: 	cat. no. 64, repr. pl. XXXII
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	Gesellschaft der Bilder- und Miniaturenfreunde (Vienna, Austria), and Leo Schidlof. <em>Katalog der Internationalen Miniaturen-Ausstellung in der Albertina, Wien, mai-juni, 1924</em>. Wien: Gesellschaft der Bilder- und Miniaturenfreunde, 1924.
	page number: 	cat. no. 423
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Edward Belden Greene. <em>Portrait Miniatures; The Edward B. Greene Collection</em>. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951.
	page number: 	Reproduced: plate XXXII, no. 64; Mentioned: 35
	url:		https://archive.org/details/PortraitMiniatures/page/n79

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IMAGES

web:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.642/1943.642_web.jpg
print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.642/1943.642_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1943.642/1943.642_full.tif