Encre L. Marquet, 1892

  • Eugène Samuel Grasset, French, 1841-1917

Lithograph printed in color ink

  • Image: 45 1/2 inches × 30 inches (115.6 × 76.2 cm)
  • 54 7/8 × 38 15/16 × 5 9/16 inches (139.4 × 98.9 × 14.1 cm)

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker

73.70

Department

Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Signed and dated, on stone, lower right: EGrasset 92

French government stamp, lower left center of image

Inscribed, on stone, lower left: ENCRE | L. MARQUET | AFFICHES ARTISTIQUES. G. DE MALHERBE RUE N.-D. DES CHAMPS, 54 Inscribed, lower center: LA MEILLEURE DE TOUTES LES ENCRES

1973-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

"Night Thoughts and Daydreams..." Printable News (September 1982): p. 4 (ill.). Malhotra, Ruth and Thon, Christina, et. al. Das Fruhe Plakat in Europa und den USA, vol. 2. Berlin, 1977, no. 404.

Eugène Samuel Grasset, Encre L. Marquet, 1892, lithograph printed in color ink. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker, 73.70.