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Virgo Castissima

(French, 1860–1936)
Medium/TechniqueEtching and aquatint, one of six
DimensionsImage: 33.4 x 16.5 cm (13 1/8 x 6 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 62 x 44.4 cm (24 7/16 x 17 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo
Accession number2010.1316.4
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ClassificationsPrints
Description

([Paris], l'Ymagier, 1896) 63 cm; original tan wrapper with letterpress, etching on front cover ("Enfant prodigue") and back cover ("cul-de-lampe"- woman's head in profile); six etchings loosely inserted; and one additional etching, another impression of the cul-de-lampe, on a different paper.

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.

ProvenanceBetween 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)