Les Belles Dames: Cleopatra, 1897

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Medium

color photomechanical illustration from the newspaper, Le Rire

Dimensions

sheet: 31 x 23.8 cm (12 3/16 x 9 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of The Atlas Foundation

Accession Number

1995.76.123

Artists / Makers

French 19th Century (artist)

Lucien Métivet (artist after) French, 1863 - after 1930

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Inscription

lower right in plate: Lucien Métivet.97; upper center printed: LES BELLES DAMES / 7.--CLÉOPATRA; across bottom printed: (La scène se passe sur un bateau qui n'est pas "mouche", --théâ des menus plaisirs d'Antoine. / Dessin de L. MÉTIVET.; upper center verso printed: LE RIRE...

Provenance

Rodolphe Darzens, Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Atlas, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Atlas, Martin, Mr. and Mrs.
Darzens, Rodolphe