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Les Trophees

Maker

(draughtsman)
1849-1918

(wood engraver)
1849-1918

Title

Les Trophees

Date of Production

1900

Medium

wood engraving on blue paper
printed in black
blue

Dimensions

Height: 25.7 cm
Width: 18.7 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.8503

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords





Provenance

Provenance: H. J. Cornish Collection; acquired by Hampstead Public Library (by 1928); transferred to the Courtauld Institute of Art, Witt Library in 1966; transferred to the Courtauld Gallery from the Witt Library in 1990.

Literature

Simon, Howard, 500 Years of Art in Illustration, Cleveland 1947
Fig. p. 223

Inscriptions

Inscription: Car la race de jour en jour diminuée / Des fils prodigieux qu'engendra la Nuée / Nous délaisse et poursuit la Femme éperdument / Les Trophees //

Maker's mark: The / Studio / London //

Inscription: AUGUSTE LEPÉRE. //

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY 1974 //

Inscription: AUGUSTE LEPÉRE. //

Inscription: Hampstead Public / Libraries / Cornish Coll //

Inscription: Poss/Prob orig woodcut

Stamp: M //

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