Paul Edme Le Rat and Louis Emile Adan
Woman weeping
1889-1899
Scroll
Physical Qualities
Etching, Sheet: 219 x 167 mm. (8 5/8 x 6 9/16 in.)
Image: 126 x 86 mm. (4 15/16 x 3 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
1996.48.12611
illustration from Poésies de Henri-Charles Read; dessins d'Emile Adan; gravé a l'eau-forte par Le Rat (Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, 1895), per email correspondence with Patrick Absalon of the Musée Boucher-de-Perthes, 8/2023.
Previous description:
Print has not been positively identified; it is presumably an illustration from either the book "Fables de la Fontaine (Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1885)" or "Florian, Fables (Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1886)"
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 plate: lower right "L Emile Adan"; lower center "P. LeRat sc."
Markings: None
