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Medium

drypoint on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 5.5 x 10.5 cm (2 3/16 x 4 1/8 in.)

sheet: 16 x 24.5 cm (6 5/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi, no. 32

Accession Number

2002.92.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier (artist) French, 1815 - 1891

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, in image, at lower left: E M [Meissonier's monogram]; by the artist, lower right in graphite: a mon ami Bracquemond / EMeissonier; verso: by later hand, lower left in graphite: 00.0.22.

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Félix Bracquemond (dedicated to him in handwritten inscription by Meissonier). (Eric G. Carlson, New York); purchased 2002 by NGA.

Associated Names

Carlson, Eric G.

Bibliography

1885: Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris, 1885-1892: Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892.