A red chalk portrait of the painter Giuseppe Amedeo Aliberti in red chalk wearing a tri-corner hat. He is standing with his right side facing the viewer, paintbrush in hand. The Italian text at the bottom reads: “Giuseppe Amedeo Aliberti Pinore Studente in Bologna al Servizio di Sua Maestrà Carlo Emanuele Rè di Sardigna, Duca di Savoia Principe di Piamonte dellineata da Monsieur Bonchardon Seultore di S.M. Christianisima rel suo Pasazzio chef ecce per Bologna di Aitorne da Roma à Earigi dimendato dal suo Rà.”
A red chalk portrait of the painter Giuseppe Amedeo Aliberti in red chalk wearing a tri-corner hat. He is standing with his right side facing the viewer, paintbrush in hand. The Italian text at the bottom reads: “Giuseppe Amedeo Aliberti Pinore Studente in Bologna al Servizio di Sua Maestrà Carlo Emanuele Rè di Sardigna, Duca di Savoia Principe di Piamonte dellineata da Monsieur Bonchardon Seultore di S.M. Christianisima rel suo Pasazzio chef ecce per Bologna di Aitorne da Roma à Earigi dimendato dal suo Rà.”
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Edme Bouchardon

Portrait of the Painter Giuseppe Amedeo Aliberti

Maker

Edme Bouchardon (French, 1698-1762)

Title

Portrait of the Painter Giuseppe Amedeo Aliberti

Year

1732

Medium

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

Materials

chalk

Supports

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)

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

49.472

Type

Publications

Exhibition History

Drawing Closer
Four Hundred Years of Drawing from the RISD Museum
Mar 12, 2022 – Sep 04, 2022

Label copy

Depicted in elegant attire, the Bolognese artist Aliberti serenely looks back at the viewer. He confidently clasps a porte-crayon (chalk holder), the same instrument Edme Bouchardon used to make this drawing. Bouchardon drew this strikingly lifelike portrait of the young artist when he visited Bologna on his way back to France, perhaps as a memento of their intimate friendship. The heightened individuality of Aliberti’s likeness is complemented by an inscription documenting the details of its making.

From Dürer to Van Gogh
Gifts from Eliza Greene Radeke and Helen Metcalf Danforth
Jun 05, 2008 – Oct 26, 2008

Label copy

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
Drawings and Watercolors from the Permanent Collection
Jun 13, 1989 – Aug 19, 1989
Old Master Drawings
Sep 02, 1983 – Oct 16, 1983
French Master Drawings
May 01, 1954 – May 30, 1954

Image use

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Tombstone

Edme Bouchardon (French, 1698-1762)
Portrait of the Painter Giuseppe Amedeo Aliberti, 1732
Red chalk on laid paper
26 x 22.9 cm (10 1/4 x 9 inches)
Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth 49.472

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