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The Comedy of Death
The Comedy of Death

The Comedy of Death

Rodolphe Bresdin (French, 1822–1885)
1854
Medium/TechniqueLithograph
DimensionsImage: 22 x 15 cm (8 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 43.6 x 29.9 cm (17 3/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Sheet (chine): 21.9 x 15 cm (8 5/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
Credit LineFund in memory of Horatio Greenough Curtis
Accession number25.1427
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn stone in margin below "Im Lemercier Paris / DEPOSE / .r. St. Rome 50, Toulouse. / LA COMÉDIE DE LA MORT"; graphite bottom "859B / 60--"; graphite verso "3861 / [no?]/800"ProvenanceBy 1925, Fitzroy Carrington (b. 1869 - d. 1954); probably 1925, sold by Fitzroy Carrington to the MFA for $48.