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Louis Anquetin

Portrait of Madeleine Bernard, 1892

Description

Maker

  • Louis Anquetin, 1861-1932, French

Title

Portrait of Madeleine Bernard

Year

1892

Medium

Oil on canvas

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • oil paint

Supports

  • canvas

Dimensions

61.3 x 50.8 cm (24 1/8 x 20 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed and dated LL:Anquetin / 92.

Place

France

Type

  • Paintings

Credit

Museum Membership Fund

Object Number

68.137

About

An unfinished quality to this portrait of Madeleine Bernard is evident in the dramatic contrast between the sharp contours of the head and the model’s loosely sketched costume. Louis Anquetin used broad, flat areas of color to construct the sitter’s face and hair, and then confined them with dark outlines. The latter technique was known as “cloissonism” due to its evocation of stained glass and enamel techniques that used linear barriers to isolate pools of color. Both Anquetin and Émile Bernard, whose sister was the model for this portrait, were among the emerging artists whom van Gogh called “painters of the little boulevard.” Seeking strategies for a new art that would supersede Impressionism, they explored means of representation that emphasized the imagination over direct observation of nature.

Signed and dated LL:Anquetin / 92.

France
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

European Painting and Sculpture, circa 1770-1937

October 18, 1991 - January 26, 1992

New Acquisitions 1967-1968.

January 1, 1967 - January 1, 1968

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