Alexandre Cabanel
George A. Lucas (1824-1909)
1872
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Alexandre Cabanel
George A. Lucas (1824-1909)
1872
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 21 3/4 x 18 in. (55.2 x 45.7 cm.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.45.50
This sensitive portrait was painted in the summer of 1873. In his Diary on June 8th, the Baltimore collector George A. Lucas recorded that he had spent the day at Cabanel’s studio sitting for this portrait, which was completed four months later. Cabanel began his career as a painter of anecdotal literary and historical subjects. In 1867, he began work primarily as a portraitist of the Parisian upper class.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art, through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
A View Toward Paris: The Lucas Collection of 19th-Century French Art
rétrospective Alexandre Cabanel
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2021
Jacobs Wing Rotations 2022
A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940
"Exhibition of the George A. Lucas Art Collection," Baltimore: The Maryland Institute, 1911, no. 33, ill. (frontispiece).
"The George A. Lucas Collection of The Maryland Institute," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1965, no. 50, ill. (frontispiece).
Stephen Edidin, "Training an Artist: Alexandre Cabanel and the Academic Process in 19th Century France, NY: Dahesh Museum, 1998, no. 13. (exh. brochure)
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "BMA Today," March/April 2003, p.6, ill.
Michel Hilaire and Sylvain Amic, "Alexandre Cabanel (1823-1889), La tradition du beau," Paris, France: Somogy éditions d'art, 2010, p. 348, ill.
Andreas Blühm, "Alexandre Cabanel, The Tradition of Beauty," Cologne: Hirmer Verlag, 2011, p. 75, ill.
Inscribed: FACE: u/r corner ALEX.CABANEL 1873 (gold paint)
