Henri Cordier (Caillebotte)

Portrait of Henri Cordier is a painting of Gustave Caillebotte in 1883. Cordier (1849-1925) was a French historian , ethnographer and orientalist . Since 1986, the work is part of the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris .



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[verbergen]  *1 Henri Cordier  ==Henri Cordier [  edit ] == Cordier was born in New Orleans, but all went in 1852 with his family to France . He was educated in Paris and England . In 1869 he moved to Shanghai, where he worked for an English bank and later for the Royal Asiatic Society. Here began his academic career, which eventually would lead to more than a thousand works. After seven years he returned to France. In Paris he worked until his death as a professor at a number of institutions, including the prestigious Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales. He was regarded as an authority in Sinology . ==[Presentation  edit ] == Because Caillebotte came from a wealthy family, he did not live to painting. He also never took orders and only painted portraits of friends. Except this portrait of Cordier is otherwise little is known about the friendship between two men. It is one of the few works of the artist he has given away (at Cordier).
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Caillebotte painted Cordier in his study on the Rue de Rivoli while he writes concentrated in a book. His attitude is taking a bit uncomfortable about. In the background are books, used goose feathers, to see a lamp and other decorative elements. The unusual composition, in which the sitter around his waist is cut off, betrays the influence of Degas . His Portrait of Edmond Duranty from 1879 shows a similar structure. ==Origin [  edit ] ==
 * to 1926: owned by the widow of Henri Cordier.
 * 1926 donated to the Musée du Luxembourg .
 * 1929: transferred to the Louvre .
 * 1947: transferred to the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume .
 * 1986: transferred to the Musée d'Orsay.