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The Death of Matamore

The Death of Matamore

(French, 1833–1914)
(French, active 1863–1867)
about 1864
Medium/TechniqueEtching
DimensionsPlatemark: 17.8 × 23.6 cm (7 × 9 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 30.5 × 47.5 cm (12 × 18 11/16 in.)
Credit LineArthur and Charlotte Vershbow Fund
Accession number2020.242
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsLower left, below image: Bracquemond sculpt. Lower left: Paris, Publié par Cadart & Luquet, Editeurs 79, Rue Richelieu Lower center: La Mort de Matamore (Capitaine Fracasse) / Th. Gautier Lower right: Imp. Delâtre, Rue St. Jacques, 303 Paris
ProvenanceBy 2009, Barbara Stern Shapiro (b. 1929 – d. 2019), New York [see note]; January 29, 2020, Barbara Stern Shapiro Estate sale, Black Rock Galleries, Bridgeport, CT, lot 228, to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 17, 2020)

NOTE: Barbara Stern Shapiro was a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the departments of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Contemporary Art, as well as the Development Department, from about 1970 until 2003. She received the title Curator Emerita upon her retirement in 2003.