Head of a Soldier

1917

Ferdinand Hodler
Swiss, 1853-1918

Status: Currently Off View

Artist: Ferdinand Hodler
Title: Head of a Soldier
Place: Switzerland (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1917
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed: E. Hodler in lower r. cor.
Dimensions: 47 × 45.8 cm (18 1/2 × 18 in.)
Credit Line: Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1926.213

Reinhold Heller, “Ferdinand Hodler: a Unique Note in the Birch Bartlett Collection,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 12, no. 2 (1986), pp. 167-187 (ill.).

“A Century of Progress”, 1934, no. 318

Willy Russ-Young (1877–1959), Serrières-Neuchâtel, Switzerland [record held in curatorial object file]. Sold through Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, Switzerland, to Frederic Clay Bartlett (1873–1953), Chicago, July 1924 [invoice from Galerie Fischer to Frederic Clay Bartlett, July 16, 1924, copy in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1926.

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