Jared French
This arresting portrait by Italian American painter Luigi Lucioni shows Jared French, himself also an artist, who served as the model for the acrobat in Paul Cadmus’s Gilding the Acrobats. In 1930, when Lucioni painted this portrait, Cadmus and French were students together at New York’s Art Students League and had begun a relationship that would last for several years. Here, Lucioni highlights French’s handsome face by placing it against an off-white cloth in the background and evoking the different textures of skin and hair with finely rendered details. Coincidentally, Lucioni and French both died in 1988.
Artwork Details
- Title: Jared French
- Artist: Luigi Lucioni (American (born Italy) Malnate 1900–1988 New York, New York)
- Date: 1930
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 18 1/4 × 15 1/8 in. (46.4 × 38.4 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund, 1994
- Object Number: 1994.74
- Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art
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