The Agony of Flowers (L’Agonie des Fleurs)
1911-1912
Theodore Roussel
Artist, British, 1847 - 1926
Artwork overview
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Medium
color softground etching, etching, and aquatint on wove paper [proof]
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 44.7 × 35 cm (17 5/8 × 13 3/4 in.)
sheet: 48 × 35.7 cm (18 7/8 × 14 1/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2026.31.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hausberg 1991, no. 154
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
by descent to Philip Lyon Roussel (died 2011); by descent to Tanya Roussel; (Gerrish Fine Art, London, UK); purchased in August 2019 by James Keith Peoples, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2026.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1991
Hausberg, Margaret Dunwoody. The Prints of Theodore Roussel: a catalogue raisonné. Bronxville, NY: 1991, no. 154.
Inscriptions
recto: none; verso: at top center in graphite in later hand: R 2