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The Little Donkeys

A work made of etching, aquatint, soft ground and drypoint from three plates in black, chartreuse, brown, red, blue-green, blue-gray, and ochre, some inked à la poupée, on ivory wove paper.

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  • A work made of etching, aquatint, soft ground and drypoint from three plates in black, chartreuse, brown, red, blue-green, blue-gray, and ochre, some inked à la poupée, on ivory wove paper.

Date:

1906

Artist:

Jean François Raffaëlli
French, 1850-1924

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Jean-François Rafaëlli

Title

The Little Donkeys

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1906

Medium

Etching, aquatint, soft ground and drypoint from three plates in black, chartreuse, brown, red, blue-green, blue-gray, and ochre, some inked à la poupée, on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 44.1 × 55.7 cm (17 3/8 × 21 15/16 in.); Plate: 45.1 × 55.8 cm (17 13/16 × 22 in.); Sheet: 55.3 × 70.4 cm (21 13/16 × 27 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Charles H. Worcester

Reference Number

1925.321

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