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Honoré Daumier

Etching Study by Four Artists

Description

Maker

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

Title

Etching Study by Four Artists

Year

1872

Medium

  • Etching on beige-colored,
  • slightly textured wove paper

Materials/Techniques

Techniques

  • Etching on beige-colored,
  • slightly textured wove paper

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

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

Credit / Object Number

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

48.362

Type

  • Prints

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Altered States
Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris
Jun 30, 2017 – Dec 03, 2017

Label copy

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
A Tribute
Jun 21, 1985 – Sep 08, 1985

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Henri-Joseph Harpignies

Landscape
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Félicien Rops

Head of a Woman

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Tombstone

Honoré Daumier (French, 1808-1879)
Alfred Taiee (French, b. 1820)
Henri-Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819-1916)
Félicien Rops (Belgian, 1833-1898)
Etching Study by Four Artists, 1872
Etching on beige-colored, slightly textured wove paper
Plate: 9.9 x 22.4 cm (3 7/8 x 8 13/16 inches)
Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth 48.362

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