Self-Portrait with Model II
artist
Anders Zorn
(Mora, 1860 - 1920, Mora)
Date1899
Place MadeSweden, Europe
MediumEtching on wove paper
Dimensions35.9 x 25.9 cm (14 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession number4.3.o.171
eMuseum ID728450
EmbARK ObjectID14106
Original Number4.2.r.153
TMS Source ID2933
Last Updated10/3/24
Status
Not on viewWeb CommentaryResting in front of his easel and smoking a cigarette, Zorn takes a short pause from his work. A half-dressed model in the background looks attentively at him. With this juxtaposition, Zorn created a powerful tension between artist and model. This etching is based on the painted version made three years earlier.
Source: Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, special exhibition on view in the museum's Hostetter Gallery, February 28 – May, 2013
Source: Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, special exhibition on view in the museum's Hostetter Gallery, February 28 – May, 2013
BibliographyNotesSven Lidbeck, Anders Zorn Etchings: Catalogue Raisonné (Helsinki, 2007), p. 188, ZG149.
MarksNotesSigned and dated in plate (lower left): 18 Zorn 99
Inscribed in graphite (lower left): Paris Nov 1899
Signed in graphite (lower right): Zorn
Numbered in graphite (lower right corner): 155
Numbered in graphite (lower left corner): A.149
Watermark: RPE
On the reverse is Mrs Cleveland I, 1899, 24.8 x 17.7 cm, ZG 145, state I/I
Inscribed in graphite (lower left): Paris Nov 1899
Signed in graphite (lower right): Zorn
Numbered in graphite (lower right corner): 155
Numbered in graphite (lower left corner): A.149
Watermark: RPE
On the reverse is Mrs Cleveland I, 1899, 24.8 x 17.7 cm, ZG 145, state I/I
ProvenanceNotesEntered Isabella Stewart Gardner's collection at an unknown date.
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