Alphonse Karr, c. 1875

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Medium

etching and drypoint on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 11.6 x 8 cm (4 9/16 x 3 1/8 in.)

sheet: 28.5 x 19.8 cm (11 1/4 x 7 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Frank Anderson Trapp

Catalogue Raisonné

Clement-Janin 1922: no. 143

Accession Number

2003.118.15

Artists / Makers

Marcellin-Gilbert Desboutin (artist) French, 1823 - 1902

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: MD; lower center in plate: Imp. Vve Cadart, Paris; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Marcellin Desboutin Alphonse Karr, Drypoint, Proof before lettering

Provenance

Frank Anderson Trapp [1922-2005], Amherst, MA; gift to NGA, 2003.

Associated Names

Trapp, Frank Anderson

Bibliography

1922: Clement-Janin, ----. La curieuse vie de Marcellin Desboutin, peintre, graveur, poete. Paris: H. Floury, 1922: no. 143