Ludovic Napoléon Lépic
Sunrise
c. 1870-1876
Physical Qualities
Etching with monoprint inking, Sheet: 455 x 815 mm. (17 15/16 x 32 1/16 in.)
Plate: 343 x 743 mm. (13 1/2 x 29 1/4 in.)
Portfolio/Series
From the series "Views from the Banks of the Scheldt"
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.9
T. Harrison Garrett, Baltimore, purchased 1885 (Lugt supp. 2435b); James L. Claghorn, Philadelphia (Lugt supp. 555c).
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 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, p. 94.
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 (blue pencil): 'fait et imprimé par / Le Pic'; LR margin (black ink): 'Lever du Soleil no 97'; BLC (graphite): '13309'; BRC (graphite): 'Reg 5[?]'. VERSO: LL: violet Claghorn stamp.
Markings: none - none
