The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 29, 2024
Portrait of Paul Sérusier
1893
(French, 1868–1941)
Sheet: 41.9 x 27.7 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 52.2 x 36.7 cm (20 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
Bequest of William Kelly Simpson 2018.76
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
The subject of this portrait, Émile Bernard, was known as "the Nabi with the red beard" for his distinctive facial hair.Description
Throughout his career, Émile Bernard made numerous portraits of his friends and colleagues, including this image of the painter Paul Sérusier. The two artists traveled to Florence in 1893 to study Renaissance painting and exchanged portraits of one another while they were there. Bernard portrayed his friend formally, presenting him frontally alongside a notation that the drawing was made during his Italian travels.- 1893-?Paul Sérusier [1864-1927], Morlaix? - by 1950Marcel Guérin [1873-1948], Paris? - ?possibly Marguerite Sérusier [1879–1950], Châteauneuf-du-Faou? - probably 1983Henriette Boutaric [?-1983], Paris1998(sale, Christie's, London, Dec. 9, 1998, no. 210, sold to William Kelly Simpson, Katonah, NY)1998 - 2018William Kelly Simpson [1928-2017], Katonah, NY, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH2018 -Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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- Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023).
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