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Portrait of Antoine Clement
(18th and 19th Centuries )
In 1837, the Baltimore-born artist Alfred Jacob Miller accompanied Antoine Clement and his employer, the Scottish nobleman William Drummond Stewart, on a journey to the Rocky Mountains in what is now Wyoming. Clement, whose mother had Native American (Cree) parentage and whose father was French Canadian, was a highly skilled hunter and helped find food for parties traveling to what was then the frontier of United States expansionist activity. He had journeyed with Stewart several times before, and later accompanied him to Europe and the Middle East, living with him for three years on his Scottish estate. Although the precise nature of Clement’s and Stewart’s relationship
is not clear, it was insinuated in contemporary sources that Stewart had several same-sex relationships with men over the course of his lifetime. Some of Stewart’s own published and private writing supports this idea.
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
M. Peter Moser, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1980, by gift.
Exhibitions
| 2008-2009 | Sentimental Journey: The Art of Alfred Jacob Miller. Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha. |
| 1988 | Alfred Jacob Miller: Maryland and the West. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Washington College, Chestertown; Frostburg State University, Frostburg; Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, Rockville. |
| 1984 | Alfred Jacob Miller: Watercolors and Drawings. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
| 1981-1982 | Alfred Jacob Miller: An Artist on the Oregon Trail. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth; Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody. |
Geographies
USA (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 30 1/8 × W: 25 in. (76.5 × 63.5 cm); Framed: 36 3/4 × 31 1/2 × 3 1/2 in. (93.3 × 80 × 8.9 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of the Moser family in memory of Rebecca Ulman Weil, 1980
Location in Museum
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.2573