Madame Mercier

Timothy Cole1913

Details

Title: Madame Mercier
Creator: Timothy Cole after Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Date Created: 1913
Subject Keywords: female portraits, portraits
Signatures / Inscriptions: Signed in pencil, lower right: “Timothy Cole”; signed in composition, lower left: “T. Cole/1913”; inscribed in pencil in artist’s hand, lower left: “Greuze, Mm Mercier/Sir Wm Van Horne''s gaL./Montreal”; inscribed in pencil in unknown hand, lower right: “for your friend Mr. Davison”
Object Type: Prints, works of art
Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1944
Materials & Techniques: Wood engraving on tissue paper with four corners glued down on wove paper
Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
Edition: Published in the “Century Magazine” December 1917, p. 260, and February 1917, p. 552
Dimensions: 1931
Bibliography: Print Club of Philadelphia 327; H. C. Smith 430
Associated People: Created by Timothy Cole (American, 1852-1931), After Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725-1805)
Accession Number: 1944.D1.157.1

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