Portrait of Paul Sérusier
Medium
gouache and watercolor on thin beige wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 41.9 × 27.7 cm · secondary support: 52.2 × 36.7 cm
Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of William Kelly Simpson
Accession Number
2018.76
Tags
male
About this artwork
Throughout his career, Émile Bernard made numerous portraits of his friends and colleagues, including this image of the painter Paul Sérusier. The two artists traveled to Florence in 1893 to study Renaissance painting and exchanged portraits of one another while they were there. Bernard portrayed his friend formally, presenting him frontally alongside a notation that the drawing was made during his Italian travels.