The Old Cock, 1882

Not on View

Medium

etching on Japan paper

Dimensions

sheet: 47.1 × 33.1 cm (18 9/16 × 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi, no. 222, State i/v

Accession Number

1943.3.2102

Artists / Makers

Félix Bracquemond (artist) French, 1833 - 1914

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: at lower right, in brown ink: Bracquemond [underlined]; at lower right, in graphite: No. 3; along bottom, in graphite, in later hand: GND M 26349 "Le Vieux Coq." B.222I state before the reeds. / about 8 impressions of which this is No. 3 Extremely rare.; verso: none

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia; gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1945: Prints from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, IN, 1945, no. 84.

1955: The Drawing and the Print, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; and Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1955, no cat.

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.

1987: Bouillon, Jean-Paul. Félix Bracquemond, Le Réalisme Absolu: oeuvre gravé 1849-1859, catalogue raisonné, Geneva: Skira, 1987.