Comedie de la Mort

1854

Rodolphe Bresdin

Artist, French, 1822 - 1885

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • 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

  • 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


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