L'Auteur fumant, à mi-corps

1897

Marcellin-Gilbert Desboutin

Associated Names
Marcellin-Gilbert Desboutin

Artist, French, 1823 - 1902

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching, drypoint, and roulette on Japanese paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19.8 × 15.8 cm (7 13/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 32.6 × 25.5 cm (12 13/16 × 10 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.157.13

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Clement-Janin 1922, no. 67, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); Ruth Cole Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased October 30, 1971; gift to NGA, 2003.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1922

  • Clement-Janin, ----. La curieuse vie de Marcellin Desboutin, peintre, graveur, poete. Paris: H. Floury, 1922: 67, ii/ii

Inscriptions

recto: none; verso: in graphite in later hand at lower center: Desboutin tenant sa pipe de la main gauche / Mi-corps (1897) 199 - 159 / avant la lettre (C-J. 67) [?] Japon / Rep C-J

Markings

recto: none; verso: at lower right stamped in black: R. C. K. [Ruth Kainen]

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q76348071

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