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Gérard de Nerval, Balzac, Courbet, Wagner

Félix Bracquemond, Auguste Delâtre, and others

Gérard de Nerval, Balzac, Courbet, Wagner

1860

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Gérard de Nerval, Balzac, Courbet, Wagner

1860

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 230 x 160 mm. (9 1/16 x 6 5/16 in.) Plate: 160 x 124 mm. (6 5/16 x 4 7/8 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 1996.48.4586
Four medallions with portrait busts of Gérard de Nerval, Honoré de Balzac, Gustave Courbet, and Richard Wagner. Frontispiece for the book "Champfleury, Grandes figures d'hier et d'aujourd'hui: Balzac, Gérard de Nerval, Wagner, Courbet (Paris: Poulet-Malassis, 1861)."
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

Inscribed: Inscribed in plate (partially effaced): lower left "Bracquemond."; lower right "Imp. Delâtre."

Markings: None

Artist

Félix Bracquemond

1832–1913

French, 1833-1914
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Printer

Auguste Delâtre

1821–1906

French, 1822-1907
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Publisher

Auguste Poulet-Malassis

1824–1877

French, 1825 - 1878
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