Julius Elias

German, 1861 - 1927

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German art historian and art collector (1861-1927)

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A long-haired, small white dog with tawny-brown ears and spots sits on a garnet-red cushion in this loosely painted vertical portrait. The dog looks just to our left with large, round, black eyes under perked eyebrows. Long, floppy ears hang to either side of its short muzzle. A snub black nose glistens over its downward curving mouth. The long fur on the dog’s body is painted with visible strokes in white and silvery gray. Its thin front legs are braced near a black and white ball, which rests at the edge of the cushion near the lower right corner of the composition. The background is coffee brown, and the artist signed the lower right corner with black paint, “ed. Manet.”
Edouard Manet, A King Charles Spaniel, c. 1866, oil on linen, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.36

A King Charles Spaniel

Edouard Manet · c. 1866 · oil on linen ·  Accession ID  1970.17.36

Bibliography

1927

  • Der Cicerone 19 (1927): 248 [obituary].

1961

  • Neue deutsche biographie. Berlin, c. 1953:439-440

1991

  • Sokoll, Gabriele. "Julius Elias, Halvdan Koht und das jüdische Exil in Norwegen." Skandinavistik: Glückstadt 21:2 (1991):116-130