Georges Rouault

French, 1871-1958

Le dur métier de vivre . . . (It is hard to live . . .) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy)

Le dur métier de vivre . . . (It is hard to live . . .) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Artwork Details

Materials

photogravure, sugar aquatint, drypoint, and copper engraving on Arches paper with Ambroise Vollard watermark

Edition:

293/425

Measurements

plate mark: 18 15/16 x 14 1/2 inches (48.10125 x 36.83 cm); image area: 19 x 14 1/4 inches (48.26 x 36.195 cm); sheet: 25 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches (64.77 x 50.165 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Credit

Gift of Frederic P. Norton, 1998

Accession ID

P1998:14.2.12

Inscriptions:

signature, dated / in plate, lower left / GR / 1922

Provenance:

Frederic P. Norton, Kenmore, New York;
December 17, 1998, donated to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

Object Classifications:

Photomechanical prints

Prints

Work Type:

Photogravure (print)

Aquatint (print)

Drypoint (print)

Copper engraving (visual work)

Information may change due to ongoing research. Glossary of Terms

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Ecce Home (Behold the Man) from the book Passion, 1936 (published 1939)

Georges Rouault
Christ prenant conge de sa mere (Christ Taking Leave of His Mother) from the book Passion, 1936 (published 1939)

Georges Rouault
Homme conduisant un autre (Man Leading Another) from the book Passion, 1936 (published 1939)

Georges Rouault
Paysan (Peasant) from the book Passion, 1935 (published 1939)

Georges Rouault
Christ au Faubourg (Christ at the Outskirts of the City) from the book Passion, 1935 (published 1939)

Georges Rouault
Christ devant la ville (Frontispiece) from the book Passion, 1935 (published 1939)

Georges Rouault
Passion, 1939

Georges Rouault, André Suarès
Femme affranchie, à quatorze heures, chante midi (Emancipated woman, who has lost her way) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

Georges Rouault
The Bay of Departed, 1939

Georges Rouault
Woman in a Bonnet, 1907

Georges Rouault
Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1934-1936 (published 1938)

Georges Rouault
Des Ongles et du bec (With Tooth and Nail), 1926

Georges Rouault

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Collection Highlights

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Untitled, 1960

Lee Bontecou
Composition No. 11, 1940-42--LONDON, with Blue, Red and Yellow, 1940-1942

Piet Mondrian
Infvitabile Fatvm, 1994

Leon Golub
Le Matin en Provence (Morning in Provence), ca. 1900-1906

Paul Cézanne
Carnaval d'Arlequin (Carnival of Harlequin), 1924-1925

Joan Miró
Limit of the Twilight, 1991

Roni Horn
Abstraktes Bild (Abstract Painting), 1977

Gerhard Richter
Nocturne—Orangerie Staircase, Versailles, 1908

Edward Jean Steichen
George Went Swimming at Barnes Hole, but It Got Too Cold, 1957

Joan Mitchell

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Georges Rouault
Ambroise Vollard
Jacquemin

Le dur métier de vivre . . . (It is hard to live . . .) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

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Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922-1927 (published 1948)

Miserere mei, Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam (Have mercy on me, God, with thy greatness) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

Au vieux faubourg des Longues Peines (In the old quarter of Long Suffering) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

Demain sera beau, disait le naufragé (Tomorrow will be fair, said the castaway) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Jésus honni . . . (Jesus reviled . . .) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Toujours flagellé . . . (Eternally scourged . . .) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Se réfugie en ton coeur, va-nu-pieds de malheur (Take refuge in your heart, miserable vagabond) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Solitaire, en cette vie d'embûches et de malices (Lonely sojourner in this life of pitfalls and malice) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Ne somme-nous pas forçats? (Are we not all convicts?) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

Nous croyant rois (We think ourselves kings) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

Qui ne se grime pas? (Who does not paint himself a face?) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

Il arrive parfois que la route soit belle . . . (Sometimes the way is beautiful . . .) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Il serait si doux d'aimer! (It would be so sweet to love!) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

Fille dite de joie (Daughter of joy, so-called) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (Mouth that was fresh, bitter as gall) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Dame du Haut-Quartier croit prendre pour le Ciel place réservée (The society lady fancies she has a reserved seat in heaven) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Femme affranchie, à quatorze heures, chante midi (Emancipated woman, who has lost her way) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

Le condamné s'en est allé . . . (The condemned is led away . . .) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Son avocat, en phrases creuses, clame sa totale inconscience . . . (His lawyer, in hollow phrases, proclaims his entire unawareness . . .) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Sous un Jésus en croix oublié là (Beneath a forgotten crucifix) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

"Il a été maltraité et opprimé et Il n'a pas ouvert la bouche" ("He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

En tant d'ordres divers, le beau métier d'ensemencer une terre hostile (In so many different ways, the noble vocation of sowing in hostile land) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

Rue des Solitaires (Rue des Solitaires) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

"Hiver lèpre de la terre" ("Winter, leper of the earth") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Jean-François jamais ne chante alleluia . . . (Jean-Francois never sings allelulia . . .) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

Au pays de la soif et de la peur (In the land of thirst and terror) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

Sunt lacrymae rerum . . . (In all things, tears . . .) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

"Celui qui croit en moi, fût-il mort, vivra" ("He that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

Chantez Matines; le jour renaît (Sing matins, a new day is born) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

"Nous... c'est en Sa mort que nous avons été baptisés" ("Know ye not that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

"Aimez-vous les uns les autres" ("That ye love one another") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

Seigneur, c'est Vous, je Vous reconnais (Lord, it is Thou, I know Thee) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1927 (published 1948)

Et Véronique au tendre lin passe encore sur le chemin . . . (And Veronica with her delicate linen still goes her way . . .) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

"Les ruines elles-mêmes ont péri" ("They have ruined even the ruins") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

"Jésus sera en agonie jusqu'à la fin du monde . . ." ("Jesus will be in anguish until the end of the world . . . ") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Ce sera la dernière petit père! (This will be the last time, little father!) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1927 (published 1948)

Homo homini lupus (Man is a wolf to man) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

Le Chinois inventa, dit-on, la poudre à canon, nous en fit don (Chinese invented gunpowder, they say, and made us a gift of it) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

Nous sommes fous (We are insane) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Face à face (Face to face) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

Augures (Portents) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1923 (published 1948)

Bella matribus detestata (War, which all mothers hate) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1927 (published 1948)

"Nous devons mourir, nous et tout ce qui est nôtre" ("We all must die, we and all we possess") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Mon doux pays où êtes-vous? (My sweet homeland, what has become of you?) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1927 (published 1948)

La mort l'a pris comme il sortait du lit d'orties (Death took him as he rose up from his bed of nettles) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

"Le juste, comme le bois de santal, parfume la hache qui le frappe" ("The righteous, like sandalwood, perfume the axe that falls on them") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

De profundis . . . (Out of the depths . . .) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1927 (published 1948)

Au pressoir le raisin fut foulé (In the press, the grapes were trodden) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

"Plus le coeur est noble moins le col est roide" ("The nobler the heart, the less stiff the collar") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

"Des ongles et du bec" ("With tooth and nail") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

Loin du sourire de Reims (Far from the smile of Rheims) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Dura lex sed lex (The law is hard, but it is the law) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

Vierge aux sept glaives (Virgin of the seven swords) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

"Debout les morts!" ("Arise, ye dead!") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1927 (published 1948)

L'aveugle parfois a consolé le voyant (Sometimes the blind have comforted those who see) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

En ces temps noirs de jactance et d'incroyance, Notre-Dame de la Fin des Terres vigilante (In these dark times of vainglory and unbelief, Our Lady of Land's End keeps vigil) from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1927 (published 1948)

"Obéissant jusqu'à la mort et à la mort de la croix" ("Obedient unto death, even the death of the cross") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1926 (published 1948)

"C'est par Ses meurtrissures que nous sommes guéris" ("And with his stripes we are healed") from the portfolio Miserere (Have Mercy), 1922 (published 1948)

Dors, mon amour (Sleep, My Love) from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1935 (published 1938)

Madame Camencita from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1935 (published 1938)

Douce amere (Bitter Sweet) from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1934 (published 1938)

Le petite ecuyere (The Little Circus Rider) from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1936 (published 1938)

Jongleur (Juggler) from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1934 (published 1938)

Parade (frontispiece) from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1934 (published 1938)

Le petit nain (The Little Dwarf) from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1934 (published 1938)

Madame Louison from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1935 (published 1938)

Amer citron (Bitter Lemon) from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1935 (published 1938)

Pierrot noir (Black Pierrot) from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1934 (published 1938)

Enfant de la balle (Saltimbanque) from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1935 (published 1938)

Tristes os (Weary Bones) from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1934 (published 1938)

Jongleur (Juggler) from the portfolio Cirque de l'etoile filante (Circus of the Shooting Star), 1934