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Joseph Pennell
1857-1926
Le Puy
[S.l. : s.n., 1894]
etching
image: 402 x 300 mm; sheet: 460 x 324 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2577
Notes
Image concomitant with plate mark.
Signed by the artist within the plate at lower right.
The first state.
Title and date from Wuerth; print also known by the title "The most picturesque place in the world".
Signed by the artist within the plate at lower right.
The first state.
Title and date from Wuerth; print also known by the title "The most picturesque place in the world".
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the artist in pencil at foot of image below plate mark; inscribed at bottom of lower margin, "1st state 3rd impression 5 printed".
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
View of Le Puy-en-Vélay, with the figure of the Virgin on the highest rock in the distance, the Saint Michel chapel at right, and a large dark rock crowned with a statue (Saint Joseph?) rising up from the center of a village in the foreground at left.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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