About the Artwork
L'attente
19th century
Aimee Pages (Artist) French, 1803-1866 Alexandre Sixdeniers (Artist) French, 1795-1846
Mezzotint printed in black on wove paper
plate: 7 3/4 x 8 3/8 in. 19.6 x 21.2 cm sheet: 10 5/8 x 11 3/4 in. 27.1 x 29.8 cm
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund
F72.283.74
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
In plate, lower left: A Pages inv; lower right: Sixdeniers sculp; center bottom margin: L'ATTENTE / A Paris chez SCHROTH Editeur Rue St. Honore No. 353 bis
Watermark: ( )ON JNE.; circular drystamp within plate mark, lower left corner; Bailly Ward and Co, New York, drystamp, center bottom margin
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Alexandre Sixdeniers; after Aimee Pages, L'attente, 19th century, Mezzotint printed in black on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.74.
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