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L'Inspiration

A work made of watercolor and gouache, with pen and blue ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, wrapped and adhered on verso to wood pulp board.
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  • A work made of watercolor and gouache, with pen and blue ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, wrapped and adhered on verso to wood pulp board.

Date:

c. 1893

Artist:

Gustave Moreau
French, 1826-1898

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Gustave Moreau

Title

L'Inspiration

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1883–1898

Medium

Watercolor and gouache, with pen and blue ink, over traces of graphite, on ivory wove paper, wrapped and adhered on verso to wood pulp board

Inscriptions

Signed lower right

Dimensions

29.9 × 23 cm (11 13/16 × 9 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Mrs. Wesley M. Dixon, Jr.

Reference Number

1985.596

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