Le chevalier n'est pas mort à la croisade

1892/1899

Maurice Denis

Artist, French, 1870 - 1943

Ambroise Vollard

Publisher, French, 1866 - 1939

Auguste Clot

Printer, French, 1858 - 1936

Maurice Denis

Printer, French, 1870 - 1943

Maurice Denis, Ambroise Vollard (publisher), Auguste Clot (technician)

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on thin yellowish/cream wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 38.6 × 27.8 cm (15 3/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 52.7 × 39.9 cm (20 3/4 × 15 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.3420

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cailler 1968, no. 112

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

1945

  • Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1945.

1948

  • Paris, The Favorable Climate, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1948 - 1949.

1949

  • Ten Centuries of Christian Art, Milwaukee Art Institute, WI, 1949, no catalogue.

1950

  • Vollard, Connoisseur, National Gallery of Art, 1950 – 1951.

1963

  • American Federation of Arts, 1963.

Bibliography

1968

  • Cailler, Pierre. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie de Maurice Denis. Geneva: Editions Pierre Cailler, 1968.

Inscriptions

top center, printed in image: MAUD [artist's monogram]; lower left, below image, in stone: Le chevalier n'est pas / mort à la croisade; lower right, below image, in graphite: 95 / Maurice Denis

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

Q64960510

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