Théogonie, published 1955

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Medium

unbound volume with 21 prints on Auvergne paper including: 1 etched cover in five colors; 1 color frontispiece in etching with aquatint and drypoint; 16 full-page etchings wtih drypoint; 1 etched chapter title; 1 etched cul de lampe; and 1 intaglio contents page with thumbnails of all illustrations

Dimensions

overall: 45.5 × 35 × 4.5 cm (17 15/16 × 13 3/4 × 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Catalogue Raisonné

Vallier 1982, no. 23

Accession Number

2014.112.10.1-21

Artists / Makers

Georges Braque (artist) French, 1882 - 1963

Hesiod (author) Greek, active c. 700 B.C.

Ambroise Vollard (publisher) French, 1867 - 1939

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Inscription

signed and underlined on justification page: G Braque

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; bequest of Mrs. Paul Mellon to NGA, 2014.

Associated Names

Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

2016: In Celebration of Paul Mellon, NGA, 2016.

Bibliography

1982: Vallier, Dora. Braque, l'oeuvre gravé: Catalogue raisonné. Paris: Flammarion, 1982, no. 23 (pp. 57-63).