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Currently not on display

Rodolphe Bresdin

Montrelais, 1822 - Sévres, 1885

The Comedy of Death

Date 1899
Materials and Techniques Lithograph on paper
Size(cm) 21.9 x 15.0 (image); 32.1 x 20.6 (paper)
Inscriptions Lower right: RODLPhe BresDin fecit.; Lower center: LA COMEDIE DE LA MORT
Standard ref. D.V.G. 84
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2004-0006

Provenance

Purchased by the NMWA, 2004.

Exhibition History

2021
National Touring Exhibition of Western Art from the NMWA: When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata / Western Art in Takaoka, Yamagata Museum of Art, 17 July 2021 - 27 August 2021, Takaoka Art Museum, 10 September-24 October 2021, cat. no. Y2_65 | T2_68

Bibliography

2006
Annual bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 39 (Apr. 2004-Mar. 2005), 2006, List of New Acquisitions. p. 38.
2021
When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 99, 181, cat. no. Y2_65 | T2_68, col. repr.

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