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Design for a Frontispiece

(French, 1822–1885)
1868–78
Medium/TechniqueLithograph on chine collé
DimensionsImage: 23.8 x 19.3 cm (9 3/8 x 7 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 36 x 27.6 cm (14 3/16 x 10 7/8 in.)
Sheet (chine): 24.3 x 19.3 cm (9 9/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
Credit LineGift of Samuel Putnam Avery
Accession numberM8931
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn plate on large rock at bottom "1878 / Je porte Cette pierre / Depuis 50 Ans" Graphite verso: "No 37 / Champfleury / 28"
ProvenanceBy 1893, Samuel Putnam Avery (b. 1822 - d. 1904, see Lugt 41), New York; 1893, gift of S. P. Avery to the MFA. (Accession date: February 24, 1893)
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