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Source 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.
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Document identity
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311854
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Portrait of Paul Sérusier
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drawing
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Source metadata
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311854
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drawing
title
Portrait of Paul Sérusier
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.
date
1893
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79873638
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46188
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
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.)
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France, 19th century
accession
2018.76
Source extras
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gouache and watercolor on thin beige wove paper
tombstone
Portrait of Paul Sérusier, 1893. Émile Bernard (French, 1868–1941). Gouache and watercolor on thin beige wove paper; 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.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of William Kelly Simpson, 2018.76
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
inscribed, lower left, in diluted ink: Portrait de Paul Séruzier / Emile Bernard / Florence 1893
didYouKnow
The subject of this portrait, Émile Bernard, was known as "the Nabi with the red beard" for his distinctive facial hair.
citations
citation
Chasse, Charles. <em>Le mouvement symboliste dans l’art du XIXe siècle</em>. Paris: Floury, 1947.
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Reproduced: n.p.
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Sérusier, Paul. <em>ABC De La Peinture</em>. Paris: Libraririe Floury, 1950.
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Mentioned: p. 63n1
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Colombier, Pierre du. “Qu’est-ce que les Nabis?” <em>Le Jardin des arts </em>8 (June 1955): 503.
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Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 503
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Rewald, John. <em>Post-Impressionism: From Van Gogh to Gauguin</em>. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1956.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 455
citation
Guicheteau, Marcel. <em>Paul Serusier</em>. Paris: Side, 1976.
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Mentioned: p. 76
citation
Pickvance, Ronald. <em>Gauguin and the School of Pont-Aven</em>. London: Apollo, 1994.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 146
citation
<em>Impressionist & Nineteenth Century Art</em>. London: Christie's, 1998.
page_number
Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 126, no. 210
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Delannoy, Agnes, ed., <em>József Rippl</em>-<em>Rónai</em>: <em>le Nabi hongrois</em>, Exh. Cat. Paris: Somogy, 1999.
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Mentioned: p. 65
citation
Luthi, Jean-Jacques, and Armand Israël. <em>Émile Bernard, 1868–1941: Fondateur de l’école de Pont-Aven et précurseur de l’art moderne</em>. Paris: Éditions de l’amateur, 2003.
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Mentioned: 76, 243
citation
Luthi, Jean-Jacques, and Armand Israël. <em>Émile Bernard: instigateur de l'école de Pont-Aven, précurseur de l'art moderne: sa vie, son œuvre: catalogue raisonné</em>. Paris: Editions des Catalogues raisonnés, 2014.
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Mentioned: p. 52
citation
Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “Introducing the Nabis.” In <em>Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900</em>. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 1-19. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.
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Mentioned and reproduced; p. 1
citation
Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 172-173, no. 35
creditline
Bequest of William Kelly Simpson
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2026-05-29 08:54:29.137000
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311854
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Drawings
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DR - French
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gouache and watercolor on thin beige wove paper
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