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Portfolio wrapper with two illustrations

Georges d' Espagnat (French, 1870–1950)
1895
Medium/Technique Printed text, woodcuts
Dimensions Overall: 64.5 x 50.4 cm (25 3/8 x 19 13/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo
Accession Number2010.1328.7
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints – Portfolios
Tan paper wrapper with tie at right. Front cover printed with title, "Cahiers de gravu/res sur bois vj [sic] pla/nches et ij [sic] vignet/tes - par Georges/ d'Espagnat"; publisher information, "par les soins de L'Ymagier./ 9, rue de Varenne, 9/ Paris/ M DCCC LXXXXV"; and edition information, "tiré à 50 exemplaires (dont 10 sur Japon impérial)". Front cover illustration: "L'homme à la clochette". Rear cover illustration: "Le derviche à cheval". L'Ymagier was an Illustrated journal published from October 1894 to December 1896; MFA owns seven (of eight total) issues (1989.177-1989.183). Rémy De Gourmont and Alfred Jarry were the editors, and contributed many texts. The journal was creditied with the revival of the woodcut. They also printed editions of the work of many symbolist artists, including Gauguin,Robertson, Emile Bernard and the douanier Rousseau.
DescriptionTan paper wrapper with tie at right. Front cover printed with title, "Cahiers de gravu/res sur bois vj [sic] pla/nches et ij [sic] vignet/tes - par Georges/ d'Espagnat"; publisher information, "par les soins de L'Ymagier./ 9, rue de Varenne, 9/ Paris/ M DCCC LXXXXV"; and edition information, "tiré à 50 exemplaires (dont 10 sur Japon impérial)". Rear cover printed with titles of plates. Front cover illustration: "L'homme à la clochette". Rear cover illustration: "Le derviche à cheval".
ProvenanceBetween the 1950s and 1980s, acquired by Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England; March 19, 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA and Naples, FL; 2010, year-end gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)