L'entrée au musée (Entrance to the Museum)

1808

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with publisher's hand coloring in watercolor on pale green laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Katharine Shepard Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 20 × 26.7 cm (7 7/8 × 10 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 25.6 × 32.7 cm (10 1/16 × 12 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.49.2


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Andrew Edmunds, London); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2018

  • Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.

Inscriptions

L'ENTRÉE au MUSÉE; lower left corner of image: 1808; by later hand, lower verso in graphite: 400

Wikidata ID

Q77008473


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