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"Fiere, autant qu'un vivant, de sa noble stature..."

"Fiere, autant qu'un vivant, de sa noble stature..." by Georges Rouault

Medium

aquatint and roulette over heliogravure

Classification

Portfolio

Department

CG-W

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1954.12.122

Rights

Public Domain

About the Artist

Georges Rouault · 18711958

Georges-Henri Rouault was born on May 27, 1871, in a Paris cellar during the violent "Bloody Week" of the Paris Commune, when a stray shell destroyed his family's home in the working-class Belleville district. Raised by a carpenter father who worked at the Pleyel piano factory and a grandfather who collected prints by Honoré Daumier, Rembrandt, Courbet, and Manet, Rouault showed early artistic pro...

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