Jean Alfred Desbrosses and Léopold Desbrosses
La Mare aux Grenouilles
1856-1866
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- Artist: Jean Alfred Desbrosses
- Previously attributed to: Léopold Desbrosses
La Mare aux Grenouilles
1856-1866
Physical Qualities
Etching, drypoint, and aquatint, Sheet: 247 × 325 mm. (9 3/4 × 12 13/16 in.)
Plate: 158 × 244 mm. (6 1/4 × 9 5/8 in.)
Image: 146 × 231 mm. (5 3/4 × 9 1/8 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
1996.48.895
Proof before lettering. Published state appeared as Plate 19 from the first volume of prints produced by the Société des Aquafortistes in 1862 (Eaux-Fortes Modernes, published by A. Cadart & F. Chevalier) (see 1996.48.894).
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: Below the image to the left "desbrosses"; below image, lower center, in graphite "[indecipherable] Grenouilles"
Markings: WM: HALLINES
Previously attributed to
Léopold Desbrosses
1820–1905
French, 1821 - after 1906
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