Venise sauvée (Venice Preserved)

1895

Jan Toorop

Artist, Dutch, 1858 - 1928

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in black on light brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Atlas Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 49.9 x 32.8 cm (19 5/8 x 12 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.76.77

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Verbeek 1969, no. 15


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rodolphe Darzens, Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Atlas, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1998

  • Artists and the Avant-Garde Theater in Paris, 1887-1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Academy Museum, New York, 1998-1999, no. 51, as Venise sauvée (Venice Preserved) by Thomas Otway.

Bibliography

1969

  • J. Verbeek. Jan Toroop, 1858 - 1928. Amsterdam, 1969: no. 15.

1992

  • Aitken, Geneviève. Artistes et Théâtres d'Avant-Garde: Programmes de Théâtre Illustrés, Paris 1890-1900. Exh. cat. Pont-Aven, Musée de Pont-Aven and tour, 1992, 71, no. 77.

1998

  • Artists and the Avant-Garde Theater in Paris, 1887-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Academy Museum, New York, 1998-1999: no. 51.

Inscriptions

lower left in stone (backwards): JAN / TOOROP; upper right printed: Troisième saison / 1re soirée / Venise sauvée / Pièce en 5 actes d'Otway / Adaptation de GIL-PENE...; across botton in stone: L'OEUVRE ADMINISTRATION / 23 RUE TURGOT

Wikidata ID

Q75395689


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