Research Catalog

Title

Voie des Fleurs, voie des pleurs [graphic]

Publication

1862.

Details

Additional Authors

• Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904.
• Greux, Gustave, 1838-1919.
• Tissot, James, 1836-1902.
• S.P. Avery Collection.

Description

1 print : etching; 7.6 x 25.1 cm.

Summary

Reproductive etching by Greux after an allegorical painting by James Jacques Joseph Tissot apparently representing a medieval dance of death.

Subject

• Death in art
• Dance of death in art

Genre/Form

• Allegories.
• Etchings – French – 19th century.
• Reproductive prints – French – 19th century.

Note

• Title identified in Michael Wentworth, James Tissot, Catalogue Raisonné of his Prints, 1978, p. 349.
• Also published in L'Artiste, April 15, 1862.
• Engraver identified by Wentworth as Greux; may be Gustave Greux.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Cite As (note)

• S.P. Avery Collection.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Holdings checked in departmental copy of Henri Béraldi, Les graveurs du XIXe siècle, v. 12 (under Tissot)

Provenance (note)

• Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900.

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.

Call Number

MEZAC (Tissot)

OCLC

NYPG98-F309

Title

Voie des Fleurs, voie des pleurs [graphic]

Imprint

1862.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Print Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Cite As:

S.P. Avery Collection.

Indexes

Holdings checked in departmental copy of Henri Béraldi, Les graveurs du XIXe siècle, v. 12 (under Tissot)

Linking Entry

Forms part of Samuel Putnam Avery Collection.

Provenance

Gift of Samuel Putnam Avery, 1900.

Added Author

Avery, Samuel Putnam, 1822-1904. Collector

Greux, Gustave, 1838-1919.

Tissot, James, 1836-1902.

S.P. Avery Collection.

Research Call Number

MEZAC (Tissot)