Emil Carlsen : L’Avare, comedie en une actre [The miser, a comedy in one act], ca.1890.

ECA record control number: 23706

Archives of American Art #: -none-

Record level: Item

Record type: Movable work

Work title: L’Avare, comedie en une actre [The miser, a comedy in one act]

Alternate work titles:
1890: L’Avare, comedie en une actre [The miser, a comedy in one act] [from newspaper article]

Work date: ca.1890

Work creator: Emil Carlsen [1848-1932]

Work medium: Oil on canvas
Work dimensions: 9 x 12 inches

Inscribed/signed front: unknown

Verso: unknown

ECA category: Still life
ECA sub-category: Orientalia

Archives of American Art Subjects:

Description of work:

“One of the still lifes has for its subject a book, on the flyleaf of which the words ‘L’Avare, comedie en une actre’ can be read. In the right foreground is a little Japanese idol with a huge cranium, while scattered in front of the figure and across the picture is some jewelry. The whole canvas is only about 9×12, and is a humorous, pretty bit of work, with blue as the prevailing tint.”
– San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, “School of Design”, September 28, 1890, page 17, not illustrated.

Provenance/ownership:
after 1890 Private collection of [unknown] ;
1890 Emil Carlsen [1848-1932], the artist .

Exhibition history:

References/citations:
– San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco, CA, “School of Design”, September 28, 1890, page 17, not illustrated.

Related works:
– Still life with netsuki, ca.1890.
– Still life with Shou Lao, ca.1890.

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Price history:

Document information

Document permalink:
https://emilcarlsen.org/work/?p=23706

Digital-born document number:
ECA.2017.23706

Digital document provenance:
Original compiled and researched document by the Emil Carlsen Archives, 266 West 21st Street, Suite 4E, New York, NY 10011.

Document license:
Creative Commons Corporation shareAlike (sa) license. Some of the information contained within this document may hold further publication restrictions depending on final use. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine.

Image license:
The author of this artwork died more than 70 years ago. According to U.S. Copyright Law, copyright expires 70 years after the author’s death. In other countries, legislation may differ.

Record birth date:
July 12, 2017

Last updated: July 12, 2017 at 16:13 pm