Summer Afternoon (Artist in his Studio with a Model)
Sir William Orpen
(Irish (active in England), 1878–1931)
about 1913
Medium/TechniqueOil on canvas
Dimensions96.5 x 86.4 cm (38 x 34 in.)
Credit LineBequest of John T. Spaulding
Accession number48.582
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Orpen studied in Dublin and then at London's Slade School, becoming one of the most successful, and most honored, portrait painters of his generation. Here, in one of his numerous forays into self-portraiture, Orpen (who was known for his wit and humor) depicts himself at work in his Chelsea studio, gesturing mock-heroically as his model yawns.
InscriptionsLower right: O R P E NProvenance1920, Mrs. John F. Carroll; February 5, 1920, Carroll sale, Anderson Galleries, New York, no. 112, sold to John Taylor Spaulding (d. 1948), Boston, MA ; 1948, bequest of Spaulding. (Accession Date: June 3, 1948)
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