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Painting (La peinture) [obverse]

1897

Alexandre Charpentier

Medalist, French, 1856 - 1909

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West Building Ground Floor, Gallery G1-C

Artwork overview

Medium

silver
Credit Line

Gift of Mark and Lynne Hammerschlag
Accession

2004.156.4.a

Intertwined Branches of Laurel and Evergreen [reverse]

Alexandre Charpentier

1897

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mark and Lynne Hammerschlag, Greenwich, Connecticut; gift 2004 to NGA.

Associated Names

Mark and Lynne Hammerschlag

Exhibition History

2009

The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, 2009-2010, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 14 of chapter "Sculpture and Privacy."

Inscriptions

lower left in monogram: ALC

Wikidata ID

Q63863419

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