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Study Plate with Eleven Heads, 1890

  • soft-ground etchings (process), drypoint, paper
  • 146 x 109 mm
  • Inv. 2011-DT

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This plate is the first print of the etching Poitrail (Chest).

Artist

Félicien Rops RKD VIAF Wikidata
Namur 1833 - Corbeil-Essonnes 1898
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Title Study Plate with Eleven Heads
Date 1890
Period 19th century
Medium and support soft-ground etchings (process) AAT
drypoint AAT
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings inscription outside the depiction, top right: Vernis n° 5
inscription outside the depiction, top centre: Aluminium Blanc
inscription top left, outside the depiction: Estompe (les yeux / et la bouche un peu / accentué à la / pointe sèche
inscription outside the depiction, left middle: à nu / - estompe sur / papier – tête teinture au / « Bourrelet »
inscription outside the depiction, bottom left: pointe d’ivoire / à nu & estompe à / nu
inscription outside the depiction, top right: A nu - plume
inscription outside the depiction, centre right: à nu / plume & / estompe
inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: à nu / plume & / estompe : tête teintée / au bourrelet
inscription outside the depiction, centre below: avec Papier Fely
inscription bottom right, outside the depiction: Crayon dur & / estompe
collector's stamp reverse, lower left: Coll. Rops
Collection print room
Object type soft-ground etchings (process) AAT
drypoint AAT
Inventory number 2011-DT
Acquisition credit gift
The Friends of the Museum
2012
Current whereabouts Work currently not on display
Permalink https://mskgent.be/collection/work/data/2011-DT
IIIF Manifest https://imagehub.mskgent.be/iiif/3/6116/manifest.json
Art & Architecture Thesaurus 300189808 figures (representations) AAT
Keywords Iconclass 31A221 head (human) Iconclass
31A71 male sex; man Iconclass
31A72 female sex; woman Iconclass
31D12 youth, young man, adolescent Iconclass
31D120 Youth, Adolescence, 'Iuventus'; 'Adolescenza', 'Gioventu' (Ripa) Iconclass
31D13 adolescent, young woman, maiden Iconclass
31D16 old man Iconclass
31D17 old woman Iconclass
School / Style realism (artistic form of expression) AAT
Félicien Rops : Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié ; Tome I. Les lithographies ; Tome II - III: Les eaux-fortes / Eugène Rouir. - Bruxelles : Claude Van Loock, 1987-1992 (vol. II, p. 265-266 (ill.), nr. 547.2)
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