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Maurice Denis

Elle était plus belle que les rêves, 1892/1899

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series Title

Amour: no.7 [Cailler 107-119; 1943.3.3409-3421]

Medium

color lithograph on lightweight cream (handmade?) wove paper

Dimensions

image: 40.5 × 29.3 cm (15 15/16 × 11 9/16 in.)

sheet: 53 × 40.3 cm (20 7/8 × 15 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Cailler 1968, no. 114

Accession Number

1943.3.3412

Artists / Makers

Maurice Denis (artist) French, 1870 - 1943

Ambroise Vollard (artist) French, 1867 - 1939

Maurice Denis (printer) French, 1870 - 1943

Auguste Clot (printer) French, 1858 - 1936

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Inscription

printed below image, in stone: Elle était plus belle que les réves

Marks and Labels

verso, stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d); stamped in black ink: Rosenwald stamp, R in semicircle (not in Lugt)

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d and R in semicircle [not in Lugt]); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1945: Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1945.

1954: Lithographs by Bonnard, Vuillard, and Maurice Denis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954.

Bibliography

1968: Cailler, Pierre. Catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre grave et lithographie de Maurice Denis. Geneva: Editions Pierre Cailler, 1968.