Emperor
Georges d' Espagnat
(French, 1870–1950)
1895
Medium/TechniqueWoodcut, plate IV from portfolio of six woodcuts
DimensionsImage: 29.8 x 25 cm (11 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Sight: 64.6 x 50.2 cm (25 7/16 x 19 3/4 in.)
Sight: 64.6 x 50.2 cm (25 7/16 x 19 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo
Accession number2010.1328.4
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(Paris: L'Ymagier, 9, rue de Varenne, 1895) 64.9 cm; original printed wrappers with woodcut vignettes on front and back, with cloth ties. The woodcut vignette on the front is "L'homme à la clochette"; back "Le derviche à cheval." L'Ymagier was an Illustrated journal published from October 1894 to December 1896; MFA owns seven (of eight total) issues (1989.177-1989.183). Rémy De Gourmont and Alfred Jarry were the editors, and contributed many texts. The journal was creditied with the revival of the woodcut. They also printed editions of the work of many symbolist artists, including Gauguin,Robertson, Emile Bernard and the douanier Rousseau.
InscriptionsStamped ll on sheet: No. 7
Stamped lr on sheel: IVProvenanceBetween the 1950s and 1980s, acquired by Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England; March 19, 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA and Naples, FL; 2010, year-end gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)
