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Kittens Sleeping

Auguste Lançon

Kittens Sleeping

1872

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Auguste Lançon

Kittens Sleeping

1872

Physical Qualities Etching, Sheet: 121 × 149 mm. (4 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.) Plate: 80 × 108 mm. (3 1/8 × 4 1/4 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 1996.48.18585
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: in image, lower left, in plate "A. Lançon 1873"; below image, lower left and center, (printed or stamped in reverse?) "Daguerréotype . Richebourg a Paris"

Markings: none

Artist

Auguste Lançon

1835–1886

French, 1836-1887
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