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Rien dans les mains rien dans les poches

Author: Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard (French, 1802–1872)
After: Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala (Spanish, 1842–1871)
Printer: Goupil & Co. (French, active in 1850s–1890s)
French

Medium/Technique Photoglyptique
Dimensions Sheet: 30.7 × 21.8 cm (12 1/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberKBR64.18
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

DescriptionPage from Sylvester Rosa Koehler's copy of Louis Blanquart-Evrard's "La Photographie."
Marks Verso, center, stamped in violet ink, the collector's mark of Sylvester Rosa Koehler (Lugt 1580)
InscriptionsLower left, in plate: Peint par E. Zamacois
Lower right, in plate: Photographie par Goupil & Cie
Lower center, in plate: Rien dans les mains rien dans les poches
Bottom left, in plate: Musee Goupil & Cie. / 889
Bottom right, in plate: Impie Photoglyptique de Goupil & Cie, Procede Woodbury
Bottom center, in plate: Publie par Goupil & Cie Editeurs / Paris. Londres. Berlin. La Haye. New York.
Verso, center, in graphite: From Blanquart-Evrard
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Acquisition Date: October 20, 1898)

NOTE:
Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.