Birth Announcement for Jean-Dominique Denis

1909

Maurice Denis

Artist, French, 1870 - 1943

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color relief printed in green, dark green, and purple on card

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Nico and Bowie Cord

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 12 × 17 cm (4 3/4 × 6 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.179.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cailler 1968, no. undesc.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Henri Marie Petiet [1894-1980] (Lugt 5031); (his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 December 2007, lot 38); (C.G. Boerner, NY); Tom Firman, Seattle, WA; Gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1968

  • Cailler, Pierre. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie de Maurice Denis. Geneva: Editions Pierre Cailler, 1968: undescribed.

Inscriptions

in block across top: M et Mme Maurice Denis ont le plaisir de vous faire part de l’heureuse / naissance de leur fils; in block across bottom: Silencio en Perros-Guirec JEAN-DOMINIQUE le 11 Aout 1909.; lower right in block, written vertically: MAUD

Markings

stamped lower right verso in black ink: H.M.P. [inside oval] (Lugt 5031)

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