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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps: The Suicide  wikidata:Q18748352 reasonator:Q18748352
Artist
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps (1803–1860)  wikidata:Q458288
 
Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps
Alternative names
Gabriel-Alexandre Decamps
Description French painter, drawer, aquarellist and lithographer
Date of birth/death 3 March 1803 Edit this at Wikidata 22 August 1860 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Edit this at Wikidata Fontainebleau Edit this at Wikidata
Work location
Paris, Turkey
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artist QS:P170,Q458288
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Title
The Suicide
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Description
English: The palette, pistol, and note lying on the floor suggest the tragic sequence of events that has taken place. An artist overcome by adversity has taken his life. Although no particular victim is indicated, this subject might have been prompted by the suicides in 1835 of Decamps' fellow artists Léopold Robert and Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, whose late paintings had been severely criticized. Decamps pursued a successful career painting a few historical subjects, numerous scenes based on his travels in the Near East in the early 1830s, and views of hunting in the Fontainebleau forest.
Date circa 1836
date QS:P571,+1836-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium oil on canvas
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q12321255,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 40 cm (15.7 in); width: 56 cm (22 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,40U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,56U174728
; Framed height: 71.4 cm (28.1 in); width: 87.3 cm (34.3 in); depth: 12.7 cm (5 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,71.44U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,87.31U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,12.7U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
37.42
Place of creation France
Object history
  • Henri Didier, 1845 [mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Charles de la Roche, 1868 [mode of acquisition unknown]
  • Wm. T. Blodgett Sale, New York, April 27, 1876, no. 88
  • John Taylor Johnston Sale, December 22, 1876, no. 86
  • S. P. Avery, 1876, by purchase
  • William T. Walters, Baltimore, December 20, 1876, by purchase [Robert Somerville as agent]
  • 1894: inherited by Henry Walters, Baltimore
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Exhibition history Paris-New York, a Continuing Romance. Wildenstein & Company, New York. 1977. The Art of the July Monarchy: France 1830-1848. Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri - Columbia, Columbia. 1989-1990. A Magnificent Age: Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2002-2004. The Works of Antoine-Louis Barye. American Art Gallery (New York), New York. 1889-1890.
Credit line Acquired by William T. Walters, before 1878
Inscriptions [Signature] Lower left: DECAMPS
References
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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