Le malheur d'Henriette Gérard

Le malheur d'Henriette Gérard

Item Information

Title:
Le malheur d'Henriette Gérard
Description:
"Le Malheur d'Henriette Gérard" by Durany, with four etchings by Legros. Paris, Poulet-Malassis and de Broise, 1861; in-18. These four compositions are etched on the same plate. 1. Emile proposes to Henriette, vignette frontispiece. 2. Emile before the police commissary. 3. Henriette returns to her mother. 4. Emile pulled from the water by bargemen. The composition are only sketched or little worked on; in vignette 4, a man in an overcoat watches the bargemen pull Emile's corpse from the water.
Artist:
Legros, Alphonse, 1837-1911
Date:
[ca. 1854–1911]
Format:
Prints
Genre:
Etchings
Group portraits
Portrait prints
Location:
Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):
Alphonse Legros (1837-1911). Prints and Drawings
Extent:
1 print : etching ; plate mark 35 x 22 cm
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Notes:
Title from catalogue raisonné.
Catalogue raisonné number: 146, I.
Notes (acquisition):
Frank E. Bliss Collection of the works of Alphonse Legros, Gift of Albert H. Wiggin, 1943
Notes (date):
Date from bulk dates of collection.
Notes (citation):
Catalogue raisonné cited in this record: Bliss, Frank E., "A catalogue of the etchings, drypoints and lithographs, by Professor Alphonse Legros (1837-1911) in the collection of Frank E. Bliss." (London: Printed for private circulation, 1923).
Catalogue raisonné numbers derived by Bliss from: Poulet-Malassis, Thibaudeau, "Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié de M. Alphonse Legros." (Paris: J. Bauer, 1877)
Notes (object):
First state.
Identifier:
07_09_000356
Barcode:
36666003285372