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The Empress Josephine

Albert Bellenger and Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

The Empress Josephine

1894

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The Empress Josephine

Albert Bellenger and Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

The Empress Josephine

The Empress Josephine

1894

Physical Qualities Wood engraving, Sheet: 233 x 299 mm. (9 3/16 x 11 3/4 in.) Image: 85 x 128 mm. (3 3/8 x 5 1/16 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 1996.48.16698
Detail of face from the painting The Empress Josephine by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, French, 1758-1823. One of a number of proof wood engravings on Japan paper in the Lucas Collection which were published as illustrations to articles or books by Theodore Child. This one appeared in Theodore Child, Wimples and Crisping Pins: Being Studies in the Coiffure and Ornaments of Women (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1895), p. 171.
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: Signed in block: lower right "A BELLENGER"

Markings: None

Artist

Albert Bellenger

1845–1913

French, 1846 - 1914
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Artist

Pierre-Paul Prud’hon

1757–1822

French, 1758-1823
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1844