Errand Girls (Trottins)

1894

Richard Ranft

Associated Names
Richard Ranft

Artist, Swiss, 1862 - 1931

The image shows two women standing facing each other. The woman on the left has hair styled up and wears a hat with a feather. She is wearing a high-collared dress with puffed sleeves and holding the hem of her skirt. The woman on the right has a similar hairstyle under a hat. She wears a form-fitting dress with a lighter cloth cravat or collar and is holding a rectangular box. The background has floral elements on the right and several mice sketched along the bottom.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint printed in brown on light brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 39.8 x 25.7 cm (15 11/16 x 10 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 59.4 x 42.5 cm (23 3/8 x 16 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.136.69

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Boyer and Cate 1991, no. 61

  • Series Title

    L'Estampe originale (album 8)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Virginia and Ira Jackson, Houston (stamp, VIJ in square, Lugt undescribed); gift to NGA, 2001.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1991

  • Boyer, Patricia Eckert, and Phillip Dennis Cate. L'Estampe originale: Artistic Printmaking in France 1893 - 1895. Zwolle, 1991: 61.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, at lower left: RICHARD RANFT; below image, at right in graphite: [erased inscription undeciphered] / Richard Ranft; lower right corner in graphite: 4500; verso: lower right in graphite: Les Trottins / 011475

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q76355913

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