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Anders Leonard Zorn, Swedish, 1860-1920
Title: Portrait of Henry Marquand (1819-1902)
Date: 1893
Medium: Etching
Dimensions:
Sheet: 40 x 29.7 cm
Plate: 27.5 x 19.7 cm
Signed: lower centre (in the plate): Zorn 1893
lower right (under the image, in pencil): Zorn
Credit Line: Purchased, 2006
Object Number: NGI.2006.16
DescriptionDramatically lit, this etched portrait of Henry Gurdon Marquand, the New York philanthropist and collector, shows him in his home on Madison Avenue. Zorn, a highprofile Swedish portraitist, had just arrived in America as commissioner for the Swedish art section of the Chicago World Fair. Richly inked, this etching, like all of Zorn’s works, was carefully composed and, despite appearances to the contrary, was worked on at length. Zorn always strove to produce a feeling of spontaneity, a sense that he had captured the sitter in a single moment, mid conversation perhaps.
ProvenancePurchased, Elizabeth Harvey-Lee prints, North Aston, Oxfordshire, October 2006