id: 150014 accession number: 1980.230 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.230 updated: 2025-05-02 11:08:41.115000 Self-Portrait with Raphael de Ochoa, 1890. Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861–1942). Oil on fabric; unframed: 99.2 x 71 cm (39 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Noah L. Butkin, 1980.230 title: Self-Portrait with Raphael de Ochoa title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1890 creation date earliest: 1890 creation date latest: 1890 current location: creditline: Bequest of Noah L. Butkin copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jacques-Émile Blanche (French, 1861–1942) - artist Apart from some artistic instruction from Henri Gervex (1852-1929) and Ferdinand Humbert (1842-1934), Blanche was self-taught. The grandson of Esprit (1796-1852) and son of Émile Blanche (1828-93), both famous nineteenth-century alienists, Jacques-Émile often portrayed his father's patients, generally members of the social or cultural elite, and was influenced by the fashionable portraits by such artists as Tissot (q.v.) and John Singer Sargent (1856-1925). Blanche first visited London as a child during the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) and then returned in 1884. He continued to travel to England every year and became famous for his portraiture, particularly of artists and writers. He spent his summers at his family's country house in Dieppe, a resort that attracted artists from both France and England. Despite his many trips to London, Blanche ultimately remained a member of the Paris social milieu and exhibited at the Salon from 1882 until 1889 and at the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts from 1890. His contemporaries regarded Blanche highly as an important critic of art and literature. Not only had he befriended many writers, such as Hardy, Beardsley, Proust, Cocteau, Jacob, Mauriac, and Gide, but he was also closely connected to the Ballets Russes, which resulted, for example, in several portraits of Diaghilev. He donated many of his own paintings and those by others in his collection, as well as a large part of his archives, to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Rouen. --- measurements: Unframed: 99.2 x 71 cm (39 1/16 x 27 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: J. E. Blanche / 1890 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1980 opening date: 1981-06-24T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). title: Portraiture: The Image of the Individual opening date: 1983-11-22T05:00:00 Portraiture: The Image of the Individual. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 22, 1983-January 22, 1984). title: Edgar Degas: Six Friends at Dieppe opening date: 2005-09-16T00:00:00 Edgar Degas: Six Friends at Dieppe. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (organizer) (September 16, 2005-January 15, 2006). title: The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939 opening date: 2025-05-02T04:00:00 The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1869-1939. Wrightwood 659, Chicago, IL (May 2-July 26, 2025) https://wrightwood659.org/exhibitions/the-first-homosexuals-the-birth-of-a-new-identity-1869-1939/. --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Paris, Champ de Mars. Salon (1891), no. 106, Portraits de M. M. J.-E. Blanche et R. de Ochoa.', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': "Paris, Jean Charpentier. Mes modèles. Images pour l'illustration de mémoires 1881-1929. Peintures et pastels de Jacques-Émile Blanche (1929), no. 43, Portrait du peintre et de Raphaël de Ochoa (1899 [sic]).", 'opening_date': '1929-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie. Exposition Jacques-Émile Blanche 1861-1942 (1943), no. 14, Portrait du peintre et de Raphaël de Ochoa, collection particulière.", 'opening_date': '1943-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island (9/16/2005 - 1/15/2006): "Edgard Degas: Six Friends at Dieppe"', 'opening_date': '2005-09-16T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE New York sale, Christie's, 20 May 1978 (lot 94, repr.), via Shepherd Gallery, New York to Noah L. Butkin, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the cma in 1980. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 30-33, Vol. I, no. 11 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.230/1980.230_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.230/1980.230_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1980.230/1980.230_full.tif