Wave (La vague)

1894, Henri Gustave Jossot (1866 - 1951)

lithograph in olive green on laid paper, 61 cm x 42.7 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

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

Object data

Object number
p1054V2000
Edition
52/100
Dimensions
61 cm x 42.7 cm, 52.8 cm x 35.2 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Stein & Karshan 39, Boyer & Cate 39

Inscription/label

signature and number
no 52. Jossot
signature
JOSSOT
blind embossing
ESTAMPE ORIGINALE by Charpentier, Alexandre-Louis-Marie, Lugt no. 819
number
Axx.
watermark
ARCHES
number
83/23
number
6590

Literature

  • by Donna M. Stein and Donald H. Karshan, L' Estampe Originale : a catalogue raisonné, 1970, p. 12, no. 39
  • Gabriel P. Weisberg ...[et al.], Japonisme : Japanese influence on French art 1854-1910, 1975, p. 62-63, 98-99
  • with essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Phillip Dennis Cate, l'Estampe originale : artistic printmaking in France 1893-1895, 1991, p. 14, no. 39
  • Michel Dixmier, Henri Viltard, Jossot caricatures : de la révolte à la fuite en Orient (1866-1951), 2010, p. 22, 43
  • [Phylis Floyd], Seeking the floating world : the Japanese spirit in turn-of-the-century french art, cop. 1989, no. 111