The Artist's Mother
1893/1896
Artist, French, 1861 - 1944

Artwork overview
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Medium
charcoal and black chalk with stumping and erasing on laid paper, laid down
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 45 x 40 cm (17 11/16 x 15 3/4 in.)
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Accession
2013.101.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
By descent in the artist's family; (2nd studio sale of the artist, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 March 1977, no. 21, reproduced on cover); M. Lucien Solanet, Paris; by descent; (W. M. Brady & Co., New York); Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke, Little Rock, 2011; purchased by NGA, 2013.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1895
3ème Salon carcassonnais. Grande salle de la Mairie, Carcassonne (no cat.).
2009
Achille Laugé: le point, la ligne, la lumière. Musée des Beaux-Arts, Carcassone; Musée Petiet, Limoux; Musée de la Chartreuse, Douai, 2009, 128-129, cat. 99 (reprod.)(cat. by Nicole Tamburnini)(exh. in Douai, only).
Drawings and Oil Sketches, 1700-1900. W. M. Brady, New York, 2009, no. 28 (color).
2012
De Delacroix à Signac: Dessins de la collection Dyke. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, 2012, 130, 138, 161, no. 80 (color).
2013
Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2013, 130, 138, 161, no. 80 (color)(cat. published in 2012).
2014
To the Point: Le portrait néo-impressionniste, 1886-1904 (Eng. title: Face to Face: The Neo-Impressionist Portrait, 1886-1904). ING Cultural Centre, Brussels, and Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 2014, 82-83, Plate 8 (color)(entry by Nicole Tamburini).
Bibliography
1895
Rozario [Albert Sarraut]. Review of the 3ème Salon carcassonnais. La Revue méridionale (1895): 51.
1906
Gastilleur, Victor. Achille Lauge: Peintre Languedocien: 13-16.
1977
"Marché." Connaissance des Arts, no. 303 (May 1977): 139 (reprod.).
1989
Tamburini, Nicole. "Achille Laugé." Mémoire de 3ème cycle de l'École du Louvre, Paris (1989): 100-101.
Markings
Laugé's studio stamp at lower left (printed in blue)
Wikidata ID
Q64533249