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Alexandre Calame

Couple Resting on a Cliff, 1845

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series Title

Essais de gravure à l'eau forte par Alexandre Calame, III, pl. 42

Medium

etching

Dimensions

plate: 21.4 x 16.2 cm (8 7/16 x 6 3/8 in.)

sheet: 35.8 x 26.9 cm (14 1/8 x 10 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Calabi 1937, no. III, 34

Accession Number

2009.129.37

Artists / Makers

Alexandre Calame (artist) Swiss, 1810 - 1864

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Inscription

lower left in plate: AC / Geneve 1845; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 1845 Calabi III, 39

Provenance

(Daniela Laube Inc. Fine Art, New York); purchased 2009 by NGA.

Associated Names

Daniela Laube Inc. Fine Art

Bibliography

1937: Calabi, A., and A. Schreiber-Favre. "Les eaux-fortes et les lithographies d'Alexandre Calame " Die graphischen Kunste 2 (1937): III, 34

2009: Daniela Laube Fine Art, Catalogue 6, 2009. no. 22.

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