Portrait of Eugène Benon
Currently on view
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes (1824 - 1898), 1882
oil on canvas, 60.6 cm x 54.5 cm
Credits: Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij)
- Object number
- s0552S2022
- Dimensions
- 60.6 cm x 54.5 cm, 89 cm x 83 cm, 8.5 cm
- Provenance
- Possibly acquired from the artist by Eugène Benon; possibly M. Hermann, 1887; Eugène Benon’s son, Louis Georges Benon, probably 1894-1895; probably after his death in 1895 his widow Anne Anastasie Benon (Meyer); probably after her death inherited by her daughter Germaine Marie Adeline Benon and her son in law Adolphe Joseph Largillière, Cambrai; probably consigned by them to auction Paris, Hôtel Drouot (Tableaux Anciens, Dessins, Aquarelles, Pastels, Tableaux Modernes), lot 48 (Portrait de Monsieur E. Denon [sic]), purchased by Henri M.H.X. Puvis de Chavannes, Paris, 16 June 1954; acquired by a private collector; from whom acquired by private collectors; sold by them to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, 10 November 2022.
- artist
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
- Credits
- Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (purchased with support from the VriendenLoterij)
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, De keuze van Vincent. Van Goghs Musée imaginaire, 14 February-15 June 2003, no. 16
Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, 25 February-29 May 1994, no. 89
Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Puvis de Chavannes 1824-1898, 18 March-1 May 1977, no. 159
Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Puvis de Chavannes 1824-1898, 26 November 1976-14 February 1977, no. 159
Lyon, Société Lyonnaise des Beaux-Arts, [titel onbekend], 1890, no. 639
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Exposition de tableaux, pastels, dessins par Puvis de Chavannes, 20 November-20 December 1887, no. 20
Brown Price, Aimée, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes II : a catalogue raisonné of the painted work, 2010, pp. 254-255
