Artist Georges Rouault, French, 1871-1958
Printer Jacquemin, French
Publisher Editions de L'Etoile Filante
Title
  • Loin de sourire de Reims
Date 1922
Medium heliogravure and etching, aquatint, drypoint, roulette, scraping and burnishing printed in black ink on laid paper
Dimensions Plate: 20 1/4 × 15 1/8 inches (51.4 × 38.4 cm)
Sheet: 26 1/8 × 20 inches (66.4 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker
Accession Number F76.170
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed and dated, in plate, lower left: 1922/GR (GR reversed)
Marks Watermark: Ambroise Vollard Arches
Inscriptions Inscribed, in pencil, lower left edge: Far from the Smile of the Angel of Rheims | Pl 51
Inscribed, center lower edge: 47-50-51 (followed by erasures)
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard F. Walker (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA);
1976-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Johnson, U. Ambroise Vollard, Editeur. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 1977, no. 121.