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Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps

The Beggars, 1834

Description

Maker

  • Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1803-1860, French

Title

The Beggars

Year

1834

Medium

Black chalk, pen and ink, and opaque watercolor on laid paper mounted to cardboard

Dimensions

19.2 x 13.8 cm (7 5/8 x 5 3/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Inscribed in black chalk, LL: "DC"

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Museum Membership Fund

Object Number

67.030

About

This drawing is preparatory for Decamps's lithograph Les Mendiants, published in L'Artiste in 1834. For the impression of the print in the RISD Museum, see 68.035.

Inscribed in black chalk, LL: "DC"

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Projects & Publications

Publications

Selection V

French Watercolors and Drawings, ca. 1800-1910

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Selection V

April 29 - May 25, 1975

New Acquisitions 1966-1967

September 1 - October 29, 1967

Use

The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is The Beggars with the accession number of 67.030. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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