Ludovic Napoléon Lépic
Snow
c. 1870-1876
Physical Qualities
Etching with monoprint inking, Sheet: 455 x 815 mm. (17 15/16 x 32 1/16 in.)
Plate: 344 x 744 mm. (13 9/16 x 29 5/16 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the series "Views from the Banks of the Scheldt"
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.22
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., "Prints by James McNeil Whistler and His Contemporaries," mid-Sept. - Dec. 31, 1995.
International Print Center New York (organizer), "Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process," AXA Gallery, 2 November 2000 - 14 January 2001; Boise Art Museum, 24 February - 6 May 2001; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, 20 July - 21 October 2001.
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
The Museum of Modern Art, "Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty," March 26 - July 24, 2016.
International Print Center New York (organizer), "Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process," AXA Gallery, 2 November 2000 - 14 January 2001; Boise Art Museum, 24 February - 6 May 2001; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, 20 July - 21 October 2001.
Rena Hoisington, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Print by Print: Series from Dürer to Lichtenstein," October 30, 2011-March 25, 2012.
The Museum of Modern Art, "Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty," March 26 - July 24, 2016.
The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century, New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1980, p. 94.
Hauptman, Jodi and Richard Kendall, "Degas: A Strange New Beauty," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2016, pg. 71, ill.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: Signed UR in pl.: 'Lepic'; LL margin (blue pencil): 'fait et imprimé / par Le Pic 99 epreuve / contre epreuve'; BRC (graphite): '588'. VERSO: LL: violet Claghorn stamp.
Markings: none - none
