The Porcelain Collector
Artist
Alfred Stevens
Belgian, 1823–1906, active in France 1852–1906
Date1868
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions26 7/8 x 18 in. (68.3 x 45.7 cm)
Frame: 34 1/2 x 25 3/4 in. (87.6 x 65.4 cm)
Frame: 34 1/2 x 25 3/4 in. (87.6 x 65.4 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Henry C. Landon III
Object numberG.81.11.1
On View
Not on viewPantheon (January-March, 1983), illus. 84.
Eric Zafran, French Salon Paintings from Southern Collections (exhibition catalogue) (Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 1982), cat. no. 62, illus.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 158.
L. E. [Lisa Eveleigh], "Private Collectors Share Their Art," North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Autumn 1992), briefly discussed and illus. (b-w) 14.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 138.
Joseph P. Covington, entry for The Porcelain Collector, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 183, illus. (color).
Matthew Drutt, ed., Thannhauser: The Thannhauser Collection of the Guggenheim Museum (New York: Guggenheim Museum, 2001), mentioned and illus. (color) 207.
Jill Berk Jimenez, Picturing French Style: Three Hundred Years of Art and Fashion (exhibition catalogue) (Mobile, AL: Mobile Museum of Art, 2002), cat. no. 60, discussed 132, illus. (color) 133.
Dr. Alice Mackrell, Fashion and Art (London: B T Batsford, 2005), mentioned 91, 93, illus. (b-w) 92.
Gabriel P. Weisberg, "Rethinking Japonisme: The Popularization of a Taste," in The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918 (exhibition catalogue) (Jackson, MS: Mississippi Museum of Art, 2011) mentioned 53, illus. (color) 56, fig. 73; also listed 183 as cat. no. 168.
Exhibition HistoryAtlanta, GA, The High Museum of Art, "19th Century French Salon Paintings from Southern Collections, January 21-March 13, 1983; Norfolk, VA, The Chrysler Museum, April 4-May 15, 1983; Sarasota, FL, The Ringling Museum, September 15-October 23, 1983, cat. no. 62, illus.
Mobile, AL, Mobile Museum of Art, "Picturing French Style: Three Hundred Years of Art and Fashion," September 6, 2002-January 5, 2003; West Palm Beach, FL, Norton Museum of Art, February 4-April 27, 2003, cat. no. 60, illus. (color).
Jackson, MS, Mississippi Museum of Art, "The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art, 1854-1918," February 19-July 17, 2011; San Antonio, TX, McNay Art Museum, October 5, 2011-January 15, 2012, cat. no. 168, illus. (color) 56.
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