Flowers (Fleurs)

1894

Ernest-Ange Duez

Associated Names
Ernest-Ange Duez

Artist, French, 1843 - 1896

The image shows several large poppy flowers with ruffled petals and broad leaves, arranged diagonally across the page. The color palette is black and white with shading to suggest depth and texture. In the composition, there is a prominent flower head near the top left corner, while a pair of buds can be seen in the center and lower left. A larger flower with extended petals is positioned closer to the bottom right.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 41 x 19 cm (16 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 60 x 43 cm (23 5/8 x 16 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2004.162.25

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Boyer and Cate 1991, no. 21

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ira and Virginia Jackson Collection, Houston; gift to NGA, 2005.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1991

  • Boyer, Patricia Eckert, and Phillip Dennis Cate. L'Estampe originale: Artistic Printmaking in France 1893 - 1895. Zwolle, 1991.

Inscriptions

lower right in plate: ED (in monogram); lower left in graphite: No41; lower right in graphite: EDuez; by later hand, lower right in graphite: DUEZ 1894

Markings

blindstamp of L'Estampe originale

Wikidata ID

Q76339044

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