Les Cigognes (The Storks), 1870s

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Medium

etching on chine collé on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 17.2 × 13.7 cm (6 3/4 × 5 3/8 in.)

sheet (chine collé): 21.6 × 16.2 cm (8 1/2 × 6 3/8 in.)
plate: 24.5 × 18.5 cm (9 5/8 × 7 5/16 in.)
mount: 35.1 × 27.5 cm (13 13/16 × 10 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi, no. 179, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2006.57.5

Artists / Makers

Félix Bracquemond (artist) French, 1833 - 1914

Auguste Delâtre (printer) French, 1822 - 1907

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, above image, at left: 271.; in plate, below image, at left: Bracquemond sculp; in plate, below image, at right: Imp Delâtre, Rue St. Jacques, Paris; in plate, below image, at center: LES CIGOGNES; by later hand, lower left in graphite: A53000; verso: none

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Kennedy Galleries, New York); Mrs. Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October, 1968; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Kennedy Galleries

Bibliography

1885: Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris, 1885-1892: Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892.