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Portrait Medallion of Émile Diaz
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Émile Diaz (1835-60) was the son of the painter Virgile-Narcisse Diaz de la Peña (1808-76), Barye's friend and colleague in the village of Barbizon. Like his father, Émile trained to become a landscape painter; tragically, he died of tuberculosis at the age of 25. Two medallions were made: one was set in the face of Émile's tomb at the cemetery of Montmartre in Paris; the other, this piece, was presented by the grieving father to his friend and patron, Alfred Sensier.
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Provenance
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Alfred Sensier [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; J. Montaignac, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; French and Company, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1951, by purchase.
Exhibitions
| 2007-2008 | Untamed: The Art of Antoine-Louis Barye. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa; The Henry Morrison Flagler Museum, Palm Beach. |
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
D: 2 1/4 x Diam: 15 3/16 in. (5.7 x 38.6 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds provided by the S. & A.P. Fund, 1951
Location in Museum
Not on view
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.
27.545