print
- Museum number
- 1926,0313.95
- Title
- Object: Dans les cendres (In the ashes)
- Description
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Figure sitting in front of fire, their face and hands lit up; plate cut down. 1887
Etching, drypoint and roulette on zinc, with surface tone
- Production date
- 1887
- Dimensions
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Height: 429 millimetres
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Width: 315 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print, which Besnard dedicated to Auguste Rodin, was originally considerably larger in size (760 x 400mm) and showed a standing figure seen from behind on the left; it was cut down some time before the turn of the century. The etching won a prize at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900, see Peter Parshall (ed), 'The darker side of light. The arts of privacy 1850-1900', National Gallery of Art Washington, 2009, p. 65. For the whole plate see Nicolas Neumann (ed.) 'Albert Besnard (1849-1934) Modernités belle Epoque' exhibition catalogue Palais-Lumière Evian and Petit Palais, musée de Beaux-Arts de la Ville, Paris, 2016-2017, p. 50, fig.5
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1926,0313.95