Charles-François Daubigny and Joseph Louis Trimolet
L’Orage
1841
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 225 x 162 mm. (8 7/8 x 6 3/8 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
1996.48.3920
Etching on steel. Page printed recto and verso (images and text) from the book "Chants et chansons populaires de France (Paris: H. L. Delloye et Garnier frères, 1842-1843)"; the designer/engraver of the illustration on the verso has not been identified by this cataloguer. In L'Orage, Melot states that "the figures are probably by Trimolet."
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
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Worcester Art Museum, The American Federation of Arts, "Visions of City & Country, Prints and Photographs of Nineteenth Century France," October 1982 - April 1983, p. 276, illus. p. 139, #75
Inscribed: Signed in plate: lower center "C. Daubigny" Inscribed in plate: recto, center "L'ORAGE / Il pleut, il pleut, bergère. / [...]"; verso, "Soignons bien, ô ma mère! / [...]"
Markings: None
