Salomon and Cleopatra, c. 1890

Not on View

Medium

mezzotint on wove paper

Dimensions

plate: 19.5 × 31.5 cm (7 11/16 × 12 3/8 in.)

sheet: 24.2 × 33.5 cm (9 1/2 × 13 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi, no. undesc.

Accession Number

2016.37.3

Artists / Makers

Henri-Charles Guérard (artist) French, 1846 - 1897

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in image: SALOMON; lower right in image: CLEOPATRA; lower left below plate: voir au vo 6ieme Etat. tiré à 4 H. Guérard; lower left in pen and ink: 6ieme Etat [not deciphered] / en [not deciphered] : Cleopatra [not deciphered] la tete du vieillard: Salomon [not deciphered] No. 2.

Provenance

(Armstrong Fine Art, Chicago); purchased 2015 by NGA.

Associated Names

Armstrong Fine Art

Bibliography

1885: Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris, 1885-1892: no. undesc

1975: Bertin, Claudie. Henri Guerard: L'oeuvre grave. Paris, 1975: no. 111, vi/vi