Frogs (Grenouilles)

1894, Charles-Louis-M. Houdard (1855 - 1931)

aquatint in three colours on simili Japon, 37.2 cm x 47 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

What is it?
What can you see?
Context
printmaker
publisher
compiler album
writer preface

Object data

Object number
p1050V2000
Edition
53/100
Dimensions
37.2 cm x 47 cm, 25.9 cm x 39.8 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Stein & Karshan 36, Boyer & Cate 36

Inscription/label

signature and number
No. 53 Ch. Houdard
monogram
CH by Houdard, Charles-Louis-M.
blind embossing
ESTAMPE ORIGINALE by Charpentier, Alexandre-Louis-Marie, Lugt no. 819
number
240012

Literature

  • by Donna M. Stein and Donald H. Karshan, L' Estampe Originale : a catalogue raisonné, 1970, no. 36, 115
  • Gabriel P. Weisberg ...[et al.], Japonisme : Japanese influence on French art 1854-1910, 1975, p. 62-63, 98
  • ed. by Gabriel P. Weisberg, Edwin Becker and Évelyne Possémé, The origins of L'Art Nouveau : the Bing empire, 2004, p. 277
  • with essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Phillip Dennis Cate, l'Estampe originale : artistic printmaking in France 1893-1895, 1991, p. 15, no. 36