Sketch for Swan Lake (Paris Opera Ceiling)

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Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Pho…
Sketch for Swan Lake (Paris Opera Ceiling)
Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY. Photo by John Bentham.
Artist/Maker (Russian-French, 1887 – 1985)
Author (French)
Publisher
Lithographer (founded 1852)
Datec. 1963
MediumColor lithograph on paper
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 13 in. × 9 1/2 in. (33 × 24.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Arthur S. Thompson, Class of 1940
Object number1997.11.4
Not on view
DescriptionFrom the book "The Ceiling of the Paris Opera," by Jacques Lassaigne.

Additional Details

Provenance 1997: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Arthur S. Thompson
Inscribed Inscribed in typeset on verso [overall]: [French text from book]
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Kurt Blum
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Date: probably 17th century
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Date: 2006
Medium: Chromogenic print
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Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn
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Medium: Etching
Object number: 1984.22
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Jacques Villon
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Gustav K. Beck
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