About This Artwork

Ary Scheffer
Dutch, 1795-1858

Portrait of an Artist, c. 1830

Oil on canvas
28 3/4 x 23 1/2 in. (73 x 59.8 cm)
Restricted Gift of the Silvain and Amma Wyler Foundation, 1969.627

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Ownership History

Robert Hoe (d, 1909), New York [according to reverse of Weitzner photo in curatorial file]. M. Knoedler & Co [according to reverse of Weitzner photo in curatorial file and mount of photo in the Witt Library, London]. Sold Christie's, London, 17 January 1969, lot. 137 to Gregory (possibly agent for Weitzner). Sold by Julius H. Weitzner, London, to the Art Institute, 1969.