Les crépuscules ont une douceur d'ancienne peinture
1892/1899
Artist, French, 1870 - 1943
Publisher, French, 1866 - 1939
Printer, French, 1858 - 1936
Printer, French, 1870 - 1943
Maurice Denis, Ambroise Vollard (publisher), Auguste Clot (technician)
Artwork overview
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Medium
color lithograph on thin yellowish/cream wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 39.8 × 29.7 cm (15 11/16 × 11 11/16 in.)
sheet: 52.4 × 39.5 cm (20 5/8 × 15 9/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1943.3.3419
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Catalogue Raisonné
Cailler 1968, no. 113
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d and R in semicircle [not in Lugt]); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1948
Paris, The Favorable Climate, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 - 1949.
1950
Vollard, Connoisseur, National Gallery of Art, 1950 – 1951.
1954
Lithographs by Bonnard, Vuillard, and Maurice Denis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954.
1970
Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Century French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970.
Bibliography
1968
Cailler, Pierre. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie de Maurice Denis. Geneva: Editions Pierre Cailler, 1968.
Inscriptions
lower right, printed in image: MAUD [artist's monogram] 98; lower left, below image, in stone: Les crépuscules ont une douceur / d'ancienne peinture; lower right, below image, in graphite: Maurice Denis 80
Markings
verso, stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d); stamped in black ink: Rosenwald stamp, R in semicircle (not in Lugt)
Watermarks
none
Wikidata ID
Q64960509