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Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière
Man Smoking a Pipecirca 1875

Not on view
Oil painting portrait of a bearded man with auburn hair and pale blue eyes holding a pipe to his lips, wearing an olive jacket with a cobalt blue cravat, against a dark brown background

Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière, Man Smoking a Pipe, circa 1875, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Jean-Alexandre-Joseph Falguière
France, Toulouse, 1831-1900
Title
Man Smoking a Pipe
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1875
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 22 × 17 3/4 in. (55.9 × 45.09 cm) Frame: 25 1/4 × 21 × 1 3/4 in. (64.14 × 53.34 × 4.45 cm)
Credit Line
The Ciechanowiecki Collection, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.2000.179.46
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Andrew S. Ciechanowiecki (1924–2015), London, by 1980, sold 2000 to; LACMA.

Selected Bibliography
  • Marandel, J. Patrice. French oil sketches from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 17th century - 19th century. Los Angeles: The Ahmanson Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2002.
  • The Changing Image: Aspects of Nineteenth-Century French Art. Peoria, IL, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1980. catalogue by J. Patrice Marandel (published in Lakeview Museum Bulletin 2, no. 2 [1980])
  • Walch, Peter, , Joanna R. Barnes, J. Patrice Marandel. French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition. New York : American Federation of Arts in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 2, French Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.