La Mort et le bûcheron (2nd plate)
Item Information
- Title:
- La Mort et le bûcheron (2nd plate)
- Description:
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Possibly unique. Same composition as preceding plate number 141, in counter-part; signed "A. Legros" in lower right corner. The woodcutter lifting with difficulty his bundle of sticks asks Death to help him load it again. Before the orb of the setting sun and much work on the ground; the clothing of Death almost white.
- Artist:
- Legros, Alphonse, 1837-1911
- Name on Item:
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A. Legros
- Date:
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[ca. 1854–1911]
- Format:
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Prints
- Genre:
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Etchings
Group portraits
Portrait prints
Allegorical prints
- Location:
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Boston Public Library
Arts Department - Collection (local):
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Alphonse Legros (1837-1911). Prints and Drawings
- Subjects:
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Death
Skeletons
Woodcutters
Fuelwood
- Extent:
- 1 print : etching ; plate mark 40 x 29 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900st32f
- Terms of Use:
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No Copyright - United States
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Catalogue raisonné number: 142, I.
- Notes (acquisition):
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Frank E. Bliss Collection of the works of Alphonse Legros, Gift of Albert H. Wiggin, 1943
- Notes (date):
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Date from bulk dates of collection.
- Notes (citation):
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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):
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First state of eleven. Possibly unique.
- Identifier:
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07_09_001892
- Barcode:
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36666003372659
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