Eugène Samuel Grasset
Drawing for Harper’s Magazine: Christmas
1889
Scroll
Eugène Samuel Grasset
Drawing for Harper’s Magazine: Christmas
1889
Physical Qualities
Pen and brush and black ink, and black crayon over blue colored pencil on paper, Sheet: 472 x 361 mm. (18 9/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.13255
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Baltimore Museum of Art, Watercolors and Drawings from the George A. Lucas Collection', July 24-Oct. 14, 1990.
Baltimore Museum of Art. The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art; Baltimore, MD: Walters Art Museum; University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, page 45, fig. 10
Inscribed: RECTO: BLC, inside black border, ink, 'E. Grasset'; BRC, inside blue border, ink, 'Copyright'; BRC, inside blue border, ink, 'Printed in France'; BLC of sheet, graphite, 'dessin original de Grasset'; BRC of sheet, graphite, '13255 / no 78 / 1000 57' in circle; VERSO: BLC, graphite, 'teoile [sic] finie' (?)
