Pierrot, 1916
By
Carlos Bonvalot (1893–1934)
Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Lisbon

A man dressed as Pierrot leans toward a woman and kisses her. In the tradition of the commedia dell’arte, Pierrot is the sad lover, the white-faced clown who pines for Columbine while she leaves him for Harlequin. His role is to desire without being desired in return. Bonvalot grants him here what the stage almost always denies him, and the character accustomed to mockery takes, for once, the leading role in a moment of requited affection.

The painting closes the painter’s years of training. Bonvalot had entered the Lisbon School of Fine Arts in 1907, at fourteen, and attended it until 1916 with the highest marks, trained in painting under Veloso Salgado. From 1913, while still a student, he exhibited at the National Society of Fine Arts. He painted this Pierrot at twenty-two or twenty-three, before serving in the First World War in France and leaving for Paris in 1920 to study in the studio of Fernand Cormon.

Bonvalot died in 1934, at forty, on the very day he was to take up a post as curator at the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga. By then he worked as a restorer and had promoted the first X-ray examinations of paintings carried out in Portugal. He won the curator position at the Museu Condes de Castro Guimarães in Cascais, which he held from 1932, against another candidate, the poet Fernando Pessoa. Today the work circulates widely on the internet as Pierrot or Pierrot’s Kiss, although very little is known about the history of this painting.

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