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Saltimbanques

Maker

(wood engraver)
1844-1926

After
(artist)
1808-1879

Title

Saltimbanques

Date of Production

1878

Medium

Off white, wove machine-made paper, all edges trimmed

Dimensions

Height: 36.3 cm
Width: 26 cm

Accession Number

G.2013.XX.2

Mode of Acquisition

Donato Esposito, gift, 2013 (November)

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Eugène Froment (1844-1900) was best known as a wood engraver, producing both reproductive prints and illustrations for contemporary literature; he exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon and, following its split into two groups in 1890, the Salon des Artistes Français. The present work, which was published in an 1878 number of L’Art (one of the leading French art periodicals in the second half of the 19th century, which frequently published hors-texte reproductive prints), reproduces a watercolour by Honoré Daumier (now in the collection of Leon Black) depicting itinerant performers.

Provenance

Isabelle Rocatti, Bourgoin-Jallieu, France, from whom purchased by Donato Esposito, 26 February 2013; Gift of Donato Esposito, 2013

Inscriptions

Inscription: Froment

Inscription: h.b

Inscription: L’ART

Inscription: SALTIMBANQUES Gravure de FROMENT d’après le dessin de DAUMIER (Collection de M.EUGÈNE MONTROSIER)

Inscription: Imp. PILLET et DUMOULIN

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