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Edme Bouchardon

Portrait of the Painter Giuseppe Amedeo Aliberti, 1732

Description

Maker

  • Edme Bouchardon, 1698-1762, French

Title

Portrait of the Painter Giuseppe Amedeo Aliberti

Year

1732

Medium

Red chalk on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • chalk

Supports

  • laid paper

Dimensions

26 x 22.9 cm (10 1/4 x 9 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in pen and ink, in an eighteenth-century hand, on a strip attached to the sheet: "Giuseppe Amadeo Aliberti Pittore Studente in Bologna al Servizio di Sua Maesta' Carlo Emanuele Re' di Sardegna Duca di Savoia Principe di Piamonte dellineata da Monsieur Bouchardon Scultore di S. M. Christianissima nel suo Pasaggio che fecce per Bologna di Ritorno da Roma a' Parigi dimandato dal Suo Re~~~ l'Anno 1732"

Stamped LR with the collector's mark of August Grahl (1791-1868; Lugt 1199)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

49.472

Projects & Publications

Publications

Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

From Dürer to Van Gogh

June 5 - October 26, 2008

A celebrated sculptor under the French King Louis XV, Bouchardon was returning to Paris from a long period of study in Rome when he drew this portrait of his friend Aliberti. The inscription reads:

Giuseppe Amadeo Aliberti studious painter in Bologna in the Service of His Majesty Carlo Emanuele, King of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy, Prince of Piedmont drawn by Monsieur Bouchardon, sculptor of His Most Christian Majesty [King Louis XV], when he passed through Bologna on his return to Paris after he had been called back by his King. 1732

Aliberti wears a smart three-cornered hat and grasps a crayon holder, which would have been used to hold a piece of red chalk much like that employed by Bouchardon to draw him.

Treasures on Paper

June 13 - August 19, 1989

Old Master Drawings

September 2 - October 16, 1983

French Master Drawings

May 1-30, 1954

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Portrait of the Painter Giuseppe Amedeo Aliberti with the accession number of 49.472. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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