Portrait of Monsieur Couche

Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria French, 1805-1865

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Portrait of Monsieur Couche

1824

Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria

1805-1865

French

Unknown

Oil on canvas

Unframed: 28 3/4 × 23 3/8 inches (73 × 59.4 cm) Framed: 37 3/4 × 32 1/4 × 4 3/8 inches (95.9 × 81.9 × 11.1 cm)

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European Painting

Founders Society Purchase, Edna Burian Skelton Fund, Barbara L. Scripps Fund, K. T. Keller Fund

74.218

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Signed and dated, lower left: E DEVERIA | 1824

Inscribed, back stretcher: Monsieur Couche

Provenance

1974, (Jacques Fischer, Paris France)

1975-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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"Annual Report," Bulletin of the DIA 54, no. 2, pp. 54-55, 74, (repr.).

The Figure in 19th Century French Painting. Exh. cat., DIA Show-on-the-Road: Flint Institute of Arts, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Midland Center for the Arts, Hackley Art Museum. Detroit, 1978-79, pp. 32-33, cat. 9, (repr.).

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Eugène François Marie Joseph Devéria, Portrait of Monsieur Couche, 1824, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Edna Burian Skelton Fund, Barbara L. Scripps Fund, K. T. Keller Fund, 74.218.

Portrait of Monsieur Couche
Portrait of Monsieur Couche