Comedie de la Mort
1854
Artist, French, 1822 - 1885

Artwork overview
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Medium
lithograph
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 21.7 x 15.1 cm (8 9/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
sheet: 47.8 x 31.3 cm (18 13/16 x 12 5/16 in.) -
Accession
1983.92.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Van Gelder 1976, no. 84, State i/vi
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1986
Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1986.
1995
Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as The Comedy of Death.
2009
The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010
Bibliography
1976
Gelder, Dirk van. Rodolphe Bresdin. 2 vols. La Haye: M. Nijhoff, 1976.
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: RBresdin 1854; all below image, lower left in plate: Redolphe Bresdin, Fecit, 1854; lower center in plate: DEPOSE; lower right in plate: Lith:Bertrand & Barthere, r.St.Rome 50, Toulouse;
Wikidata ID
Q74044482