Comedie de la Mort, 1854

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Medium

lithograph

Dimensions

image: 21.7 x 15.1 cm (8 9/16 x 5 15/16 in.)

sheet: 47.8 x 31.3 cm (18 13/16 x 12 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Van Gelder 1976, no. 84, State i/vi

Accession Number

1983.92.1

Artists / Makers

Rodolphe Bresdin (artist) French, 1822 - 1885

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: RBresdin 1854; all below image, lower left in plate: Redolphe Bresdin, Fecit, 1854; lower center in plate: DEPOSE; lower right in plate: Lith:Bertrand & Barthere, r.St.Rome 50, Toulouse;

Exhibition History

1986: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 1986.

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as The Comedy of Death.

2009: The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

Bibliography

1976: Gelder, Dirk van. Rodolphe Bresdin. 2 vols. La Haye: M. Nijhoff, 1976.