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Edward R. Bacon (1846–1915)

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Edward R. Bacon (1846–1915)

Anders Zorn  (Swedish, Mora 1860–1920 Mora)

Date:
1897
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
48 1/4 x 35 1/4 in. (122.6 x 89.5 cm)
Classification:
Paintings
Credit Line:
Bequest of Virginia Purdy Bacon, 1919
Accession Number:
19.112

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  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Signed and dated (lower right): Zorn 1897

  • Provenance

    the sitter, Edward R. Bacon, New York (1897–d. 1915); his sister-in-law, Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon, New York (1915–d. 1919)

  • Exhibition History

    Paris. Salon. April 24, 1897–?, no. 1272 (as "Portrait de M. E.-R. B.").

  • References

    James B. Townsend, and W. Stanton Howard. Memorial Catalogue of Paintings By Old and Modern Masters Collected by Edward R. Bacon. New York, 1919, ill. (frontispiece).

    Karl Asplund. Anders Zorn: His Life and Work. London, 1921, p. 44.

    Hans Henrik Brummer. Till ögats fröjd och nationens förgyllning: Anders Zorn. Stockholm, 1994, pp. 203, 299, 329 n.14, quotes a letter from the sitter to Zorn discussing the reception of his portrait and the portrait of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon (MMA 17.204), at the 1897 Salon.



  • Notes

    Zorn produced an etching after the portrait in 1897, illustrated in Karl Asplund, "Zorn's Engraved Work: Descriptive Catalogue," Stockholm, vol. 1, 1920, p. 189, no. 116.

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