32. Albert Jean Adolphé - "Portrait of a Father and Son, after Anthony van Dyke"

Albert Jean Adolphé (American, Pa., 1865-1940)

Untitled [Portrait of a Father and Son, after painting by Anthony van Dyke in the collection of the Louvre Museum, Paris]

Oil on panel

14 1/8 x 9 3/8 inches

Painted in Paris, at the Louvre, c. 1897-1901

Signed and inscribed, recto, upper right: "Albt. Jean Adolphé, Paris"

 

Notes:

 

In her essay in the catalogue accompanying the 2001 exhibition, "To Paris and Back: Albert Jean Adolphé -- An Artist's Journey" at the Berman Museum of Art, Ursinus College, Pamela Potter-Hennessey notes that Albert Jean Adolphé was born "Albert John Adolph" in Philadelphia in February 1865, and except for a brief period of study in Europe at the turn of the century (c.1897-1901), he lived and worked in Philadelphia his entire life. This painting is one of the rare surviving works from his years in Paris. It is a copy Adolphé' made of a painting by Anthony van Dyck, "Portrait of a Father With His Son (also called Portrait of Guillaume Richardot and His Son," located in the Louvre Museum.

Potter-Hennessey explains the raison d'être of the practice of replicating the Old Masters: "Through the controlled process of copying directly from the paintings, Adolphé and thousands of others learned from the masters of the past, while dreaming that their own works might one day be hung for inspection by a new generation."

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