Crisantemes (Chrysanthemums)

1899

Alexandre de Riquer (artist and author)

Associated Names
Alexandre de Riquer

Artist, Spanish, 1856 - 1920

The image features a cover page design with a large flower-like illustration in muted green at the center. The text displays "ALEXANDRE DE RIQUER" and "CRISANTEMES" in red capital letters above the image, and "A. VERDAGUER RAMBLA DEL MIG BARCELONA" in red below. The color palette includes neutral beige with red and green accents. The illustration and text are centrally aligned on the page, with a decorative monogram at the bottom center.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with embossed cover design; 96 chromolithographic or photomechanical illustrations, which include a half-title, title, 9 initials, 17 head-pieces, 32 tail-pieces, and 36 in-text illustrations

  • Credit Line

    Evelyn Stefansson Nef Fund

  • Dimensions

    book: 21.4 × 10.5 × 1.8 cm (8 7/16 × 4 1/8 × 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.138.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Librairie Thomas-Scheler, Paris); purchased 2016 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2016

  • Librairie Clavreuil. 1525-1955: Quarante livres rares de petit format. Paris, 2016: no. 38.

Inscriptions

last free endpaper upper right in graphite: SA

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