Florilege des amours de Ronsard
1948
Artist, French, 1869 - 1954
Author, French, 1524 - 1585
Artwork overview
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Medium
unbound volume with 128 lithographs, including 2 on the cover, 1 on the frontispiece, 27 full-page lithographs and 98 within the text; all in sanguine except for 1 in black on the titlepage
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
book: 39 × 30 × 6.5 cm (15 3/8 × 11 13/16 × 2 9/16 in.)
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Accession
2014.112.30
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Catalogue Raisonné
Duthuit/Garnaud 1988, no. 25
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; bequest of Mrs. Paul Mellon to NGA, 2014.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1988
Duthuit, Claude and François Garnaud. Henri Matisse: Catalogue raisonné des ouvrages illustrés. Paris, 1988: no. 25.
Inscriptions
signed on justification page, in black ink: H. Matisse; in blue ink: (author's signature)