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Georges Rouault

French, 1871-1958

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)

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)

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)

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

293/425

image area: 23 1/4 x 17 inches (59.055 x 43.18 cm); plate mark: 23 3/8 x 17 3/16 inches (59.3725 x 43.65625 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

P1998:14.2.56

Inscriptions:

signature, dated / in plate, lower left / G Rouault 1927

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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