Ludovic Napoléon Lépic
Willows and Poplars
c. 1870-1876
Physical Qualities
Etching with monoprint inking, Sheet: 455 x 815 mm. (17 15/16 x 32 1/16 in.)
Plate: 345 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
1984.81.25
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 'The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century,' Oct. 16-Dec. 7, 1980, cat. no. 20; circulated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Jan. 24-Mar. 22, 1981.
"Prints by Whistler & His Contemporaries," National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., June 18- December 31, 1995 (first half June - Sept.).
"The Unfinished Print: Masterpieces from Six Centuries"; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 3 - October 7, 2001, circulated to Das Stadel, Frankfurt October 7, 2004 - January 2, 2005.
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.
"Prints by Whistler & His Contemporaries," National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., June 18- December 31, 1995 (first half June - Sept.).
"The Unfinished Print: Masterpieces from Six Centuries"; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., June 3 - October 7, 2001, circulated to Das Stadel, Frankfurt October 7, 2004 - January 2, 2005.
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 Unfinished Print: Meisterwerke unvollendeter Druckgraphik aus sechs Jahrunderten. Frankfurt: Städe;sches Kunstinstitut un Städtische Galerie, 2004, p. 45, ill 31.
Hauptman, Jodi and Richard Kendall, "Degas: A Strange New Beauty," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2016, pg. 70, ill.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: RECTO: Signed LL margin (blue pencil): 'fait et imprimé / par Le Pic / 43 epreuve'; LR margin (blue pencil): 'Saules et peupliers'; BLC (graphite): '13.309 / -3'; BRC (graphite): 'Reg 60 / 3'. VERSO: LL: violet Claghorn stamp.
Markings: none - none
