La Dernière Maja, 1880

Not on View

Medium

drypoint with etching and aquatint on light blue laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.6 x 23.8 cm (11 5/8 x 9 3/8 in.)

sheet: 45 x 32.1 cm (17 11/16 x 12 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen

Catalogue Raisonné

Rouir 1987 - 1992, no. 950

Accession Number

2006.57.30

Artists / Makers

Félicien Rops (artist) Belgian, 1833 - 1898

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in graphite: Felicien Rops; lower right in graphite: La Dernière Maja; in plate: Fuyez le / Sourise / Des / Srenis; lower right in plate: DEA / DESINIT / IN / PISCEM!; by later hand, lower center in graphite: 127-0 (crossed out) 4228D

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); Ruth Kainen, Washington, D.C., purchased November 6, 1968; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Kainen, Jacob, Mrs.
Prouté, S.A., Paul

Bibliography

1928: Exsteens, Maurice. L'Oeuvre grave et lithographie de Felicien Rops. 4 vols. and appendix. Paris: Editions Pellet, 1928.

1987: Rouir, Eugène. Félicien Rops, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié. 3 vols. Brussels, 1987 - 1992.