print
- Museum number
- 1901,1022.141
- Title
- Object: André Chénier
- Description
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Portrait of French poet André Chénier, after Suvée; half-length, turned to right and looking to front, wearing jacket, shirt and loose cravat
Etching
- Production date
- 1855-1901
- Dimensions
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Height: 143 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 100 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Suvée's painting of his fellow prisoner in Saint-Lazare in 1794 is in a French private collection. S. Join-Lambert and A. Leclair, 'Joseph-Benoît Suvée (1743-1807): Un peintre entre Bruges, Rome et Paris', 2017, no. P. 178. The painting was finished days after the poet had been executed due to his opposition to Robespierre and Marat.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1901,1022.141