Gabriel Max
Studies after the French artist Paul Delaroche, including his Self-Portrait of 1838
pencil on paper, a page from a sketchbook
24 x 19 cm
circa 1860
Estate stamp in ink lower right (Nachlass Gabriel von Max)
Discussion:
The studies after Delaroche relate to his paintings "Mort du President Duranti," "Herodias," and "Portrait of the Artist's son Philippe Delaroche," as well as to his drawing "Self-Portrait" of 1838.
According to 19th-century art historian Dr. Agathon Klemt, Gabriel Max, as a young artist, studied and was profoundly influenced by a photographic publication that reproduced all of the work of Paul Delaroche, who had died in 1858. See: Agathon Klemt, "Gabriel Max und seine Werke," in Die Graphischen Künste, ed. Oskar Berggruen, Jahrgang IX., Heft I (Wien: Gesellschaft für Vervielfältigende Kunst, 1886/87) 1-12, discussion at pgs. 4 and 8. See also: Adolf Kohut, "Gabriel Max," Westermanns illustrierte deutsche Monatshefte 54 (1883),173-186, who at pgs. 179-180 also notes the influence of the photographs of Delaroche's work. The publication in question was likely: Oeuvre de Paul Delaroche, reproduit en Photographie par Bingham (Paris, 1858).
