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The Bride

A work made of drawing with scraping, hand-coloring in watercolor/gouache and black ink with graphite additions on white gillot paper (papier gillot: a white coated paper covered with a very fine pattern of black horizontal stripes and ridges used to produce a gillotage) laid down on ivory board.
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  • A work made of drawing with scraping, hand-coloring in watercolor/gouache and black ink with graphite additions on white gillot paper (papier gillot: a white coated paper covered with a very fine pattern of black horizontal stripes and ridges used to produce a gillotage) laid down on ivory board.

Date:

n.d.

Artist:

Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen
French, born Switzerland, 1859-1923

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Théophile-Alexandre Pierre Steinlen

Title

The Bride

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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1879–1923

Medium

Drawing with scraping, hand-coloring in watercolor/gouache and black ink with graphite additions on white Gillot paper (papier Gillot: a white coated paper covered with a very fine pattern of black horizontal stripes and ridges used to produce a Gillotage) laid down on ivory board

Dimensions

Image: 28.2 × 24 cm (11 1/8 × 9 1/2 in.); Sheet: 29.3 × 24.6 cm (11 9/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Board: 29.8 × 24.7 cm (11 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

The Charles Deering Collection

Reference Number

1927.5487

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