Physical Qualities
Color aquatint, etching, and softground etching with roulette, Sheet: 459 x 258 mm. (18 1/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
Plate: 394 x 227 mm. (15 1/2 x 8 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Alexander Baer's colleagues at Jenkins Baer in in Honor of his 60th Birthday; and Print and Drawing Acquisition Fund
Object Number
2008.20
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2008; Conrad Graeber Fine Art, Riderwood, MD
"Gifts of Art," BMA Today, Winter 2008-2009, pp. 12-13, ill. p. 12.
Signed: 3 (brown/tan, dark blue/light blue, red/pink)
Inscribed: Recto: in plate, at upper left: "Jeunesse passe vite / vertu!"; in plate, at lower right: "A. Lepere"; at lower left, in graphite: "A. Lepère"; along bottom, from center to right, in graphite: "L-B. 91 III Les laveuses 1339 A24778 E" Verso: at lower left, in graphite: "HF"; at lower center, in graphite: "Les Laveuses"
Markings: CM: at lower right: Ed Sagot Editeur Paris
