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Fifth Bucolic: The Death of Daphnis

1955

Jacques Villon

Associated Names

Jacques Villon

Artist, French, 1875 - 1963

The image consists of human figures sketched with curving and angular lines against a backdrop of horizontal stripes in black, blue, green, and white. The figures are depicted in various poses and levels of completion, some more detailed than others. At the lower left corner, there is a swan with a curved neck and a reclining dog shape above it.

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Artwork overview

Medium

color lithograph on Japan paper
Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number

1963.11.245
Catalogue Raisonné

Ginestet/Pouillon 1979, no. 566

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1979

Ginestet, Colette de and Catherine Pouillon. Jacques Villon: les estampes et les illustrations: catalogue raisonne. Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1979.

Wikidata ID

Q65509868

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