Erasmus, 1863

West Building, Main Floor — Gallery 73-B

Medium

etching on chine collé on wove paper

Dimensions

image: 24.9 × 19.8 cm (9 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

sheet (chine collé): 33.6 × 25.6 cm (13 1/4 × 10 1/16 in.)
mount: 45.6 × 33.1 cm (17 15/16 × 13 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Addie Burr Clark

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi, no. 39, State viii/x

Accession Number

1946.9.21

Artists / Makers

Félix Bracquemond (artist) French, 1833 - 1914

Hans Holbein the Younger (artist after) German, 1497/1498 - 1543

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right corner, in graphite: B. 39 / VIII; lower left in graphite: Erasmus par Bracquemond. epreuve sur chine; lower right, in graphite: Addie Burr Clark Collection; lower right corner, in graphite: [letter and numbers crossed out] / 65

Marks and Labels

recto: stamped in black ink: Addie Burr Clark (Lugt 80a); verso: none

Provenance

Addie Burr Clark [1868 - 1946], New York, (Lugt 80a); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1946.

Associated Names

Clark, Addie Burr, Mrs.

Exhibition History

1995: Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Desiderius Erasmus by Félix Bracquemond after Hans Holbein the Younger.

Bibliography

1885: Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris, 1885-1892: Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892.

1987: Bouillon, Jean-Paul. Félix Bracquemond, Le Réalisme Absolu: oeuvre gravé 1849-1859, catalogue raisonné, Geneva: Skira, 1987.