Schoolboy

probably between 1880 and 1900

Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin French, 1841-1927

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Modern, Level 2, Central Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Schoolboy

Artwork Date probably between 1880 and 1900

Artist Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin

Life Dates 1841-1927

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 21 3/4 × 17 1/2 inches (55.2 × 44.5 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hills

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 74.217

Markings

Signed Signed, lower left: Guillaumin

Provenance

(Jacques Blot, Paris, France);
(E. G. Van Wisselingh and Co., Amsterdam, Netherlands);
1966, (Hammer Galleries, New York, New York, USA);
collection of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hills (Detroit, Michigan, USA);
1974-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Courières, E. des. Armand Guillaumin. Paris: 1924, pp. 66-67, [not referenced in the collection of J. Blot as of this date].

Gray, C. Armand Guillaumin. Pequot Press: CT, 1972, pp. 45, 54-56, 60, 62, 142-144. [book not about our ptg. specifically, references sons and contains signatures].

Mosby, D. "Curator's Report," Bulletin of the DIA 54, no. 2 (1975): p. 55, (repr.).

Seven Ages of Man. London, Ontario, London Regional Art Gallery, 1980, p. 32-33.

Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts: Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art. Exh. cat., Sogo Museum of Art; Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art; Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art; Fukui Fine Arts Museum; Yawatahama Citizen Gallery. 2001, pp. 37, 106, no. 33, color repro. p. 107 [in Japanese, entry by A. Marcereau on file].

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Jean Baptiste Armand Guillaumin, Schoolboy, probably between 1880 and 1900, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Hills, 74.217.