Albert Bellenger, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
The Empress Josephine
1894
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Albert Bellenger, Pierre-Paul Prud'hon
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