Georges Rouault
French, 1871-1958
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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)
Artwork Details
Materials
photogravure, aquatint, drypoint, and copper engraving on Arches paper with Ambroise Vollard watermark
Edition:
293/425
Measurements
image area: 22 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches (57.15 x 41.91 cm); plate mark: 22 3/4 x 16 3/8 inches (57.785 x 41.5925 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
P1998:14.2.38
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Provenance:
December 17, 1998, donated to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
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