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Alexandre Calame

Shipwreck, 1840

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series Title

Essais de gravure à l'eau forte par Alexandre Calame, II, pl. 29

Medium

etching with roulette on chine collé

Dimensions

plate: 10.9 x 8.1 cm (4 5/16 x 3 3/16 in.)

sheet: 35.2 x 26.2 cm (13 7/8 x 10 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Calabi 1937, no. II, 16

Accession Number

2009.129.22

Artists / Makers

Alexandre Calame (artist) Swiss, 1810 - 1864

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Inscription

along right edge in plate: A Calame pinx et aqua fort Geneve 1840; by later hand in graphite: 1840 Calabi II, 16

Provenance

(Daniela Laube Inc. Fine Art, New York); purchased 2009 by NGA.

Associated Names

Daniela Laube Inc. Fine Art

Bibliography

1937: Calabi, A., and A. Schreiber-Favre. "Les eaux-fortes et les lithographies d'Alexandre Calame " Die graphischen Kunste 2 (1937): II, 16

2009: Daniela Laube Fine Art, Catalogue 6, 2009. no. 22.

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