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| Title | Portrait of Antoine Vollon | |
| Collection | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Artist | Carpeaux, Jean-Baptiste (French sculptor, painter, and etcher; 1827-1875) | |
| Date | 1873 (dated) | |
| Signed | yes | |
| Description | Antoine Vollon was a painter and engraver who settled in Paris in 1863 after early training at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Lyon. He became a friend of Carpeaux who was better known as a sculptor. This informal and freely painted portrait was completed in Dieppe. | |
| Current Accession Number | 1960P20 | |
| Former Accession Number | P.26´60 | |
| Inscription | front cl 'A l'ami Vollon Be Carpeaux Dieppe 1873' |
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| Subject | portrait (Vollon, Antoine) | |
| Measurements | 45.7 x 38.1 cm cm (estimate) | |
| Material | oil on canvas | |
| Acquisition Details | Purchased from Roland, Browse &Delbanco 1960. | |
| Principal Exhibitions | Carpeaux Exhibition, Palais des Beaux Arts, 1929, cat. no. 123; 19th and 20th Century French Paintings and Drawings, Roland, Browse & Delbanco, 1960, cat. no. 34; Primitives to Picasso, Royal Academy of Arts, 1962, cat. no. 223. | |
| Publications | Clement-Carpeaux, L., La Verité sur L'Oeuvre et la Vie de J B Carpeaux, 1935, II, p. 332; Burlington Magazine, vol. 102, 1960, pl. XVII of advertising;Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1989, p.227, fig.1; Foreign Paintings in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, A Summary Catalogue, 1983, no. 26, ill. | |
| Notes | Another very similar version of this painting is in a private collection in France. | |
| Rights Owner | Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery | |
| Author | Dr Patricia Smyth | |