id:			124380
accession number:	1945.352
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updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:01.477000

The Comedy of Death, 1854. Rodolphe Bresdin (French, 1822–1885), Lemercier. Lithograph; sheet: 29.9 x 22.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 in.); image: 21.9 x 15.1 cm (8 5/8 x 5 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund 1945.352

title:				The Comedy of Death
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creation date:			1854
creation date earliest:		1854
creation date latest:		1854
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creditline:			Dudley P. Allen Fund
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	lithograph
department:	Prints
collection:	PR - Lithograph
type:		Print
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catalogue raisonne: van Gelder 84

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CREATORS

* Rodolphe Bresdin (French, 1822–1885)  - artist

* Lemercier  - published by

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measurements: Sheet: 29.9 x 22.9 cm (11 3/4 x 9 in.); Image: 21.9 x 15.1 cm (8 5/8 x 5 15/16 in.)
state of the work:	
edition of the work: 	Sixth Edition

support materials:

	description:	chine appliqué
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	signed, in stone, lower right: Rodophe [sic] Bresdin fecit.; lower left, in stone: Im. Lemercier Paris; lower center, in stone: DÉPOSÉ; lower center, in stone: LA COMÉDIE DE LA MORT
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	remark:		

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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Images of the Mind
	opening date:   1987-07-07T04:00:00
	<i>Images of the Mind</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 7-August 30, 1987).

	title:		Symbolist Prints
	opening date:   1991-11-05T05:00:00
	<i>Symbolist Prints</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	J. B. Neumann
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948</em>. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 22
	url:		https://archive.org/details/Lithography/page/n29

	Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Images of the Mind.</em> Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1987.
	page number: 	Reproduced: [p. 26]
	url:		

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