Pierre-Georges Jeanniot (French, 1848–1934)
Portrait of the Artist’s Father, Pierre-Alexandre Jeanniot
Graphite on paper, 5 3/4 x 4 1/4 in.
Gift of DeCourcy E. McIntosh
2003.37

In this sensitive portrait, Jeanniot pays tribute to his father and teacher Pierre-Alexandre Jeanniot (1826–1892), a portraitist and landscape painter who for many years directed the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon.