Ludovic Napoléon Lépic
The Mill Fire
c. 1870-1876
Physical Qualities
Etching with monoprint inking, Sheet: 455 x 815 mm. (17 15/16 x 32 1/16 in.)
Plate: 343 x 743 mm. (13 1/2 x 29 1/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the series "Views from the Banks of the Scheldt"
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.33
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. 19, ill. p. 94; circulated to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Jan. 24-Mar. 22, 1981.
"The Etchings of James McNeil Whistler"; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 11/24/84-1/13/85.
"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 Etchings of James McNeil Whistler"; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 11/24/84-1/13/85.
"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 30.
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'; signed LL margin (pencil): 'fait et imprimé / par le Pic / 24 Ep.'; LR margin (blue pencil): 'L'incendie du Moulin'; BLC (graphite): '13309'; BRC (graphite): 'Reg 59'. VERSO: LL: violet Claghorn stamp.
Markings: none - none
