Anatole France, 1906

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Medium

etching on laid C & I Honig paper

Dimensions

plate: 21.2 × 16 cm (8 3/8 × 6 5/16 in.)

sheet: 30.5 × 24.9 cm (12 × 9 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Asplund 1920, no. 204 state iv/iv

Accession Number

1943.3.8837

Artists / Makers

Anders Zorn (artist) Swedish, 1860 - 1920

Image Use

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Inscription

"Zorn" lower right composition, in plate, artist's hand. "Zorn" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "1906" lower left composition, in plate, artist's hand. "Anatole de France" verso, lower center margin, graphite, unknown hand. "A-204-IV" lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "E/735" lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "a 50256" verso, lower left margin, graphite, unknown hand. "D.205.II" verso, lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand. "78174." verso, lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

"LRJ" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1760b). "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink, (Lugt 1932d). "R" verso, purple stamped ink.

Provenance

Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1931: Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 68.

Bibliography

1920: Asplund, Karl. Zorn's Engraved Work: Descriptive Catalogue. English ed. 2 vols. Stockholm: A.-B.H.Buckowskis Konsthandel, 1920.