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Edme Bouchardon

Portrait of the Painter Giuseppe Amedeo Aliberti, 1732

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Description

Maker

Title

Portrait of the Painter Giuseppe Amedeo Aliberti

Year

1732

Medium

Red chalk on laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

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)

Type

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

49.472

Projects & Publications

Publications

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Drawing Closer

March 12 - September 4, 2022

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

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.

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