Le savant endormi
Item Information
- Title:
- Le savant endormi
- Description:
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An impression of the entire plate, showing the portrait of the artist now engraved in the previous blank half. The scholar has fallen asleep in his arm-chair, before a table laden with papers and a glass jar containing a foetus; the forms of skulls and skeletons stand out fantastically along the walls of the cabinet.
- 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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Drypoints
Portrait prints
Self-portraits
- 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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Artists
Scientists
Sleeping
Legros, Alphonse, 1837-1911
- Extent:
- 1 print : drypoint ; plate mark 21 x 28 cm
- Permalink:
- https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/m900rr12c
- Terms of Use:
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No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
- Notes:
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Title from catalogue raisonné.
Catalogue raisonné number: 129, III.
- 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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Third state of four.
- Identifier:
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07_09_000312
- Barcode:
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36666003285018
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