The Agony of Flowers (L’Agonie des Fleurs)

1911-1912

Theodore Roussel

Associated Names
Theodore Roussel

Artist, British, 1847 - 1926

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color softground etching, etching, and aquatint on wove paper [proof]

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Keith Peoples in memory of Ainslie Harkness Peoples

  • 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

  • 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


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