Accession number
PML 147544
Creator
Gervais, Paul, 1859-1944.
Published
[Paris : s.n., 1932
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Proof of a photogravure illustration by Paul Gervais for Pierre Louÿs's Aphrodite (Paris : Imprimé pour la Société Association et Cercle Grolier, 1932).
Description
1 print : photogravure ; image: 200 x 159 mm; plate mark: 237 x 191 mm; sheet: 327 x 236 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil below image: bistre en dégagé / dans le pres(?) de cette épreuve.
Signed by the artist within image at lower right.
Signed by the artist within image at lower right.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows temple scene, with a nude woman standing at left before a nude statue of a woman holding a mirror and an old man sitting beside the base of the statue at far right; a crowd of scantily clad women are shown among the pillers of the temple in the background; garlands and riches are heaped at the foot of the statue and a large censer sits on the floor at far left.
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