Accession number
PML 147545
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: 202 x 159 mm; plate mark: 244 x 197 mm; sheet: 330 x 237 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil below image: cette force est bonne.
Signed by the artist within image at lower left.
Signed by the artist within image at lower left.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows two young women at right, partially draped, addressing an elderly man with pleading and supplicatory gestures as he stands in a doorway looking out at them from behind a partially open door.
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