# Portrait of Paul Sérusier

- By: Émile Bernard (French, 1868–1941)
- Date: 1893
- Medium: gouache and watercolor on thin beige wove paper
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: Sheet: 41.9 x 27.7 cm (16 1/2 x 10 7/8 in.); Secondary Support: 52.2 x 36.7 cm (20 9/16 x 14 7/16 in.)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Bequest of William Kelly Simpson
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.76)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.76/2018.76_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Throughout his career, Émile Bernard made numerous portraits of his friends and colleagues, including this image of the painter Paul Sérusier. The two artists traveled to Florence in 1893 to study Renaissance painting and exchanged portraits of one another while they were there. Bernard portrayed his friend formally, presenting him frontally alongside a notation that the drawing was made during his Italian travels.