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The Young Sailor II

oil painting by Henri Matisse from 1906
VisualArtwork painting Q16987384
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Summary

The Young Sailor II is a painting[1]. It ranks in the top 6% of painting entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (80 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Creator: Henri Matisse[3]
  • Maintained by: Modern and Contemporary Art[4]
  • Owned by: Bernheim-Jeune[5], Pierre Matisse Gallery[6], Hans Seligman-Schürch[7], Jacques Gelman[8]
  • Movement: Fauvism[9]
  • Genre: portrait[10]
  • Depicts: sailor[11], man[12], portrait[13]
  • Made from material: oil paint[14], canvas[15]
  • Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art[16]
  • Inventory number: 1999.363.41[17]
  • Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art[18]
  • Country of origin: France[19]
  • Inception: 1906[20]
  • Exhibition history: Salon d'automne de 1908[21], Twentieth-Century Modern Masters: The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection[22]
  • Described by source: Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History[23]
  • Title: Young Sailor II[24]
  • Height: 101.3 cm[25]
  • Width: 82.9 cm[26]
  • Copyright status: copyrighted[27]

Why It Matters

The Young Sailor II is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . metmuseum.org. Retrieved . metmuseum.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 10w ago · Abraham · 2026-07-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Title → Young Sailor II
    Location of creation → Q254829
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Title: Le Jeune marin II"
  2. 11w ago · Abraham · 2026-07-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Height → {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q174728', 'amount':
    Wikidata description → oil painting by Henri Matisse from 1906
    Maintained by → Modern and Contemporary Art
    Owned by → Bernheim-Jeune, Pierre Matisse Gallery, Hans Seligman-Schürch +1
    + 29 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Different from: Q140733661"
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