Les deux soeurs
Item Information
- Title:
- Les deux soeurs
- Description:
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One figure, on the right, sits in front of an embroidery loom. She interrupts her work to look at the viewer. The other figure, on the left, in profile, also seated, holds a book and reads. On the wall are hung one complete frame and another frame with only the corner visible.
- Artist:
- Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904
- Name on Item:
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Fantin
- Date:
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1862
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints
- Subjects:
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Embroidery
Looms
Reading
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- Terms of Use:
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No Copyright - United States
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- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hédiard: H. 1 (appendix)
Additional information accompanying item: First state - before the signature and before much working. A few trial proofs. This impression signed and dedicated "Fantin a son ami Myonnet, 6 Octobre, 1862," and carrying the notation, "l etat" written in the artist's own handwriting.
- Notes (acquisition):
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Gift; Albert H. Wiggin; 1949
- Notes (date):
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Date from catalogue raisonné.
- Notes (citation):
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Hédiard, Germain. "Fantin-Latour : catalogue de l'oeuvre lithographique du maître, précédé d'une étude par Germain Hédiard et d'une notice sur Germain Hédiard par Léonce Bénédite." Librairie de l'art ancien et moderne, 1906, Paris.
- Notes (object):
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First state.
- Identifier:
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17_10_000399
- Barcode:
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36666003798333
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