Baigneuses (1re grande planche)

Baigneuses (1re grande planche)

Item Information

Title:
Baigneuses (1re grande planche)
Description:
Two naked young women are seated against the dark greenery. The one on the right, seen from the front, wipes her breast with the end of the drapery on which she sits. Her companion next to her is seen from behind and wrapped in white and dark draperies. There is narrow thinning and other greenery on the right and a meadow landscape and tall trees on the left. The sky is dim and marked with highlights made from the scraper. In the foreground is the water.
Artist:
Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904
Name on Item:
Fantin
Date:
1881
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Lithographs
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints
Subjects:
Bathing
Nudes
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hédiard: H. 37
Additional information accompanying item: Margins rectified. Signed below, to the left - "Fantin." First state - without the name of the printer. 7 or 8 trial proofs. Executed in 1881. Stone destroyed. This impression is signed and dedicated to Mr. Henry.
Notes (acquisition):
Gift; Albert H. Wiggin; 1949
Notes (date):
Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):
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):
First state.
Identifier:
17_10_000318
Barcode:
36666003797467