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Honoré Daumier

Etching Study by Four Artists, 1872

Description

Maker

  • Henri-Joseph Harpignies, 1819-1916, French
  • Honoré Daumier, 1808-1879, French, printmaker
  • Alfred Taiee, b. 1820, French
  • Félicien Rops, 1833-1898, Belgian

Title

Etching Study by Four Artists

Year

1872

Medium

Etching on beige-colored, slightly textured wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • etching

Supports

  • Light weight cream laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 9.9 x 22.4 cm (3 7/8 x 8 13/16 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

On recto, at ll, in red ink: stamp of Albert Maroni (Lugt 150b)

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

48.362

Projects & Publications

Publications

Altered States

Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris
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Manual / Issue 6

Assemblage
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Altered States

June 30 - December 3, 2017

One evening in 1872, during a party held at the home of a friend, four artists passed around a prepared copper plate and took turns sketching into it with a needle. Each contributed one or more of the plate’s sections with a subject of their choice. The casual, social context of this print’s creation indicates the ease with which artists could sketch on a plate, as if using a pen on paper.

The print was the only etching ever made by Daumier—a prolific artist in other printmaking techniques—suggesting how quickly etching techniques could be learned.

Helen M. Danforth

June 21 - September 8, 1985

Related

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Félicien Rops

Head of a Woman, 1872
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Honoré Daumier

Head of an Old Man, 1872
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Alfred Taiee

Chez Charles Bériot, 1872
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Félicien Rops

Head of a Woman in Profile, 1872
No Image Available

Henri-Joseph Harpignies

Landscape, 1872

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