Les eglogues de Virgile

1926

Aristide Maillol

Artist, French, 1861 - 1944

Virgil

Author, Italian, 70 - 19 B.C.

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    folio of 129 woodcut illustrations consisting of 3 sets of prints from 43 blocks, the first set in black with text on uncut and untrimmed sheets of handmade rag, the second in black on individual sheets of handmade rag without text and the 3rd in bistre without text on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 34.2 × 25 × 4 cm (13 7/16 × 9 13/16 × 1 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.112.33

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Guérin 1965, nos. 15-59

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; bequest of Mrs. Paul Mellon to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1961

  • Garvey, Eleanor, M. The Artist and the Book, 1860 - 1960, In Western Europe and the United States. Boston, 1961: no. 172.

1982

  • Guerin, Marcel. Catalogue Raisonne de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie Aristide Maillol. Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1965, nos. 15-59.

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