Anders Leonard Zorn
, Swedish, 1860-1920
Title
Portrait of Henry Marquand (1819-1902)Date1893
MediumEtching
Dimensions
Sheet: 40 x 29.7 cm
Plate: 27.5 x 19.7 cm
Signedlower centre (in the plate): Zorn 1893
lower right (under the image, in pencil): Zorn
Credit LinePurchased, 2006
Object numberNGI.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