Ludovic Napoléon Lépic
Rain
c. 1870-1876
Physical Qualities
Etching with monoprint inking, Sheet: 450 x 815 mm. (17 11/16 x 32 1/16 in.)
Plate: 345 x 743 mm. (13 9/16 x 29 1/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the series "Views from the Banks of the Scheldt"
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.10
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
"Prints by Whistler & His Contemporaries," National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., June 18- December 31, 1995 (first half June - Sept.).
"Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process"; organized by AFA/International Print Center, New York; AXA Gallery, New York, November 2, 2000- January 14, 2001; Boise Art Museum, February 24- May 6, 2001; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, July 20- September 9, 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.
"Hard Pressed: 600 Years of Prints and Process"; organized by AFA/International Print Center, New York; AXA Gallery, New York, November 2, 2000- January 14, 2001; Boise Art Museum, February 24- May 6, 2001; Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, July 20- September 9, 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, ill. p. 20.
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 UR in pl.: 'Lepic'; signed LL margin (pencil): 'fait et imprimé / par Le Pic 10 Ep.'; LR margin (blue pencil): 'La Pluie'; BLC (graphite): '13.309'; BRC (graphite): '601 / Reg. 60'. VERSO: LL: violet Claghorn stamp.
Markings: none - none
