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The Comedy of Death
Rodolphe Bresdin (French, 1822–1885)
1854
Medium/Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
Image: 22 x 15 cm (8 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 43.6 x 29.9 cm (17 3/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Sheet (chine): 21.9 x 15 cm (8 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 43.6 x 29.9 cm (17 3/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Sheet (chine): 21.9 x 15 cm (8 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Fund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession Number25.1427
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Van Gelder 084 (4th edition); Préaud 129 iii/v; Neumann 44
Signed
In stone lower left "RBREsdin 1854 [4 reversed]"; pen and black ink below "A mon nouvel ami Mr. page [Fage?] / rodolphe Bresdin"
InscriptionsIn stone in margin below "Im Lemercier Paris / DEPOSE / .r. St. Rome 50, Toulouse. / LA COMÉDIE DE LA MORT"; graphite bottom "859B / 60--"; graphite verso "3861 / [no?]/800"
ProvenanceBy 1925, Fitzroy Carrington (b. 1869 - d. 1954); probably 1925, sold by Fitzroy Carrington to the MFA for $48.