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Georges Rouault

French, 1871-1958

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

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

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

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

293/425

image area: 23 1/8 x 17 1/4 inches (58.7375 x 43.815 cm); plate mark: 23 3/16 x 17 3/8 inches (58.89625 x 44.1325 cm); sheet: 25 1/2 x 19 3/4 inches (64.77 x 50.165 cm)

Collection Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Gift of Frederic P. Norton, 1998

P1998:14.2.55

Inscriptions:

signature, dated / lower right, in the plate / 1920 G Rouault

signature, dated / in plate, lower right / 1926 G Rouault

Provenance:

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

Object Classifications:

Photomechanical prints

Prints

Photogravure (print)

Aquatint (print)

Drypoint (print)

Copper engraving (visual work)

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