Birds of Prey (Oiseaux de proie)

1893, Emile Victor Prouvé (1858 - 1943)

etching and aquatint in olive green on laid paper, 43.5 cm x 60.5 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
p1069V2000
Edition
47/100
Dimensions
43.5 cm x 60.5 cm, 23.9 cm x 42.5 cm, 22.5 cm x 40.9 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Stein & Karshan 55, Boyer & Cate 55

Inscription/label

signature and number
V. Prouvé no. 47.
blind embossing
ESTAMPE ORIGINALE by Charpentier, Alexandre-Louis-Marie, Lugt no. 819
number
87/20

Literature

  • by Donna M. Stein and Donald H. Karshan, L' Estampe Originale : a catalogue raisonné, 1970, p. 68-69, no. 55
  • Textes de Christian Debize, Dominique de Font-Réaulx, Sophie Harent...[et al.], Victor Prouvé (1858-1943), 2008, p. 95-96, no. 245
  • [Phylis Floyd], Seeking the floating world : the Japanese spirit in turn-of-the-century french art, cop. 1989, p. 20, 114
  • with essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Phillip Dennis Cate, l'Estampe originale : artistic printmaking in France 1893-1895, 1991, no. 55