Accession number
PML 147543
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: 195 x 156 mm; plate mark: 233 x 190 mm; sheet: 329 x 236 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil below image: bistre / plus lumineux.
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 a woman seated on a couch at right, partially draped in a sheet; at left stands a man who holds out a kylix-shaped cup to her and behind him stand two guards clad in classical armor.
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