Portrait of Paul Sérusier
Émile Bernard
1893
- Medium
- gouache and watercolor on thin beige wove paper
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Genre
- drawing
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
France, 19th century
About
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.
