The Goddess Discord [La Discord], 1886

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series Title

The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine

Medium

etching on parchment

Dimensions

sheet: 41.2 x 29.9 cm (16 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
plate: 25.5 x 20.5 cm (10 1/16 x 8 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Leo Steinberg

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi 1885-1892, no. 798 v/v

Accession Number

2011.139.10

Artists / Makers

Félix Bracquemond (artist) French, 1833 - 1914

Gustave Moreau (artist after) French, 1826 - 1898

Boussod et Valadon (publisher) French, est. 1884 - closed 1919

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in plate: HYMEN; lower left in plate: -Gustave Moreau-; across upper margin in plate: October 1st 1886, London, Publishing by Boussod, Valadon & Co successors to Goupil & Co 116 & 117. New Bond Street W and g. rue Chaptal, Paris, Copyright registered; signed by artist, lower right below plate, in graphite: Bracquemond; by later hand, lower left, in graphite: La dionade B. 798

Marks and Labels

blind stamp, lower left below plate: TU [encircled]

Provenance

Leo Steinberg [1920-2011], New York; gift to NGA 2011.

Associated Names

Steinberg, Leo, Estate of

Bibliography

1885: Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris, 1885-1892, no. 798.