Portrait of Alfred de Musset (1810-1857)
Alexandre Bida (French, 1823–1895)
1850–1859
- Medium
- black chalk and graphite with stumping, watercolor, gouache, and fabricated colored chalk on medium weight wove paper
- Dimensions
- Overall: 43.6 x 30.7 cm (17 3/16 x 12 1/16 in.)
- Genre
- Drawing
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
France, 19th century
About
This portrait is one of only a few that Alexandre Bida—known primarily for his depictions of North Africa—created during his career. It depicts the celebrated French poet and novelist Alfred de Musset (1810–1857). Bida was commissioned to create illustrations for an 1865 publication of Musset’s collected writings, and the drawing was likely completed in commemoration of that project.
