Comte Lepic

1876

Marcellin-Gilbert Desboutin

Associated Names
Marcellin-Gilbert Desboutin

Artist, French, 1823 - 1902

The image shows a man seated with one leg crossed over the other. He is turned slightly to one side with his hands resting on his knee. The man has a full beard and mustache, curly hair, and wears a suit. Behind him is an easel with a canvas and a sketch of a dog on the wall. The background is lightly sketched with various lines and shadings. The signature "Camille Lepage" is in the bottom left corner of the sketch.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on Chinese paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 33.6 × 25.2 cm (13 1/4 × 9 15/16 in.)
    plate: 31.7 × 23.8 cm (12 1/2 × 9 3/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.618

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Clement-Janin 1922, no. 163, State v/vi

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Ludovic Napoléon Lepic.

Bibliography

1922

  • Clement-Janin, ----. La curieuse vie de Marcellin Desboutin, peintre, graveur, poete. Paris: H. Floury, 1922.

Inscriptions

recto: in image at lower left in blue pencil: Comte Lepic; verso: at lower right in graphite in later hand: 4 [indecipherable] Bains / 1839-90

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65511163

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