Les Grands Hommes aux Champs-Élysées (The Grand Men of the Champs Élysées)
Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard), French, 1803 - 1847
about 1839
Hand colored woodcut on wove paper
Sheet: 10 9/16 × 7 1/2 in. (26.8 × 19.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Guernsey Center Moore 1904 Memorial Fund
PR.973.441
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
19th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower center: LES GRANDS HOMMES AUX CHAMPS-ELYSEES.
Course History
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2013
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2014
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Spring 2014
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Fall 2014
FREN 8, Exploring French Culture and Language, Annabelle Cone, Winter 2015
Exhibition History
The Napoleonic Era, Strauss and Barrows Galleries and Barrows Windows, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 29-September 3, 1979.
Provenance
Tomlinson Collection, Baltimore, Maryland; sold to present collection, 1973.
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