Image

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, printmaker

Les Mendiants (The Beggars), 1834

Description

Maker

Title

Les Mendiants (The Beggars)

Year

1834

Medium

Lithograph

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

Dimensions

Plate: 22.2 x 15.6 cm (8 3/4 x 6 1/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Lettered with artist's initials in image LL: "DC". Lettered UC: "L'ARTISTE"; LL: "Decamp del."; LC: "LES MENDIANTS."; LR: "Lith. de Benard"

Identification

State

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Type

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

68.035

About

A woman and her two children beg in the street, one before her with his arms raised and the other over her shoulder.

Lettered with artist's initials in image LL: "DC". Lettered UC: "L'ARTISTE"; LL: "Decamp del."; LC: "LES MENDIANTS."; LR: "Lith. de Benard"

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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Use

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