Ernest Renan, 1892

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 22.1 × 33.7 cm (8 11/16 × 13 1/4 in.)

sheet: 35.6 × 45.9 cm (14 × 18 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Asplund 1920, no. 73, state v/v

Accession Number

1943.3.8846

Artists / Makers

Anders Zorn (artist) Swedish, 1860 - 1920

Image Use

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Inscription

"Zorn" lower left composition, in plate, artist's hand. "Zorn" lower right margin, graphite, artist's hand. "1892" lower left composition, in plate, artist's hand. "E. Renan" lower left margin, graphite, artist's hand. "d'apres nature" lower left composition, in plate, artist's hand. "020" verso, lower right margin, graphite, unknown hand.

Marks and Labels

[rose with three leaves on stem] (S.S. Rosenstamm collector's stamp) lower right margin, black stamped ink, stamped twice (Lugt 2839). "LRJ" verso, black stamped ink. "National Gallery of Art" verso, black stamped ink. (Cortlandt F. Bishop collector's stamp) verso, black stamped ink (Lugt 2770b). (Cortlandt F. Bishop collector's stamp) verso, purple stamped ink, (Lugt 2770b).

Provenance

S.S. Rosenstamm [1860-1919], New York City, (Lugt 2839); to Cortlandt F. Bishop [1870-1935], New York City, (Lugt 2770b); to Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 20 November 1935; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Bishop, Cortland Field
Rosenstamm, S.S.
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Bibliography

1920: Asplund, Karl. Zorn's Engraved Work: Descriptive Catalogue. English ed. 2 vols. Stockholm: A.-B.H.Buckowskis Konsthandel, 1920.