Jacques-Emile Blanche, 'Francis Poictevin', 1887
About the work
Overview
Francis Poictevin (1854 - 1904) was a French Symbolist writer. Blanche made a lithograph after this portrait for the frontispiece of Poictevin's 'Paysages et Nouveaux Songes', published in 1888.
This painting for a time belonged to Degas, but he returned it to Blanche, probably when the latter's portrait of Degas (Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art) was reproduced in 'The Studio' in December 1903, contrary to Degas's wishes.
Key facts
Details
- Full title
- Francis Poictevin
- Artist
- Jacques-Emile Blanche
- Artist dates
- 1861 - 1942
- Date made
- 1887
- Medium and support
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 26.7 × 16.5 cm
- Inscription summary
- Signed; Dated
- Acquisition credit
- Tate: Presented by Miss Hilda Trevelyan 1939
- Inventory number
- L689
- Location
- Not on display
- Image copyright
- Tate: Presented by Miss Hilda Trevelyan 1939, © ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2005
- Collection
- Main Collection
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