Patience d'eau (Study of Water Dock)
Eugène Bléry, French, 1805 - 1887
1840
Etching on chine collé
Plate: 8 × 11 1/4 in. (20.3 × 28.5 cm)
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 17 1/16 in. (30.1 × 43.3 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Dr. Franz H. Hirschland, Class of 1935P and 1939P
PR.949.18
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in plate, lower left: E Blery det [t in superscript & sculp.t [t in superscript]; inscribed, in plate, lower right: aqua forti. 1840; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: Patience d'Eau (Etude) / Eug Blery; inscribed, in graphite, lower right: 155 02/142 Epreuve d'etat / avant le et no [o in superscript] 2
Exhibition History
French Art in the Age of George Sand; Prints from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Chapel Art Center, Saint Anselm College, Manchester, New Hampshire, January 27-February 24, 1994.
Provenance
Dr. Franz H. Hirschland (1880-1973), New York, New York; given to present collection, 1949.
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