Birth Announcement for Marthe Mellerio, 1896

Not on View

Medium

lithograph printed in gray and brown on wove paper [proof, missing blue stone]

Dimensions

sheet: 12.6 × 18.9 cm (4 15/16 × 7 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Nico and Bowie Cord

Catalogue Raisonné

Cailler 1968, no. 90

Accession Number

2019.179.1

Artists / Makers

Maurice Denis (artist) French, 1870 - 1943

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in graphite: Maurice Denis; lower right corner in graphite: 90; in stone: Monsieur et Madame André / Mellerio ont le / plaísir de vous annon / cer qu’il leur est né / une fille / marthe / le 29 Mars 1896 11 bis rue Portalis; lower right verso in graphite: 510052

Marks and Labels

stamped lower right verso in black ink: H.M.P. [inside oval] (Lugt 5031)

Provenance

Henri Marie Petiet [1894-1980] (Lugt 5031); (his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 6 December 2007, lot 38); (C.G. Boerner, NY); Tom Firman, Seattle, WA; Gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Boerner LLC, C.G.
Drouot, Hôtel
Firman, Tom
Petiet, Henri M.

Bibliography

1968: Cailler, Pierre. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie de Maurice Denis. Geneva: Editions Pierre Cailler, 1968: no. 90.