Shipwreck

1840

Alexandre Calame

Artist, Swiss, 1810 - 1864

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching with roulette on chine collé

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 10.9 x 8.1 cm (4 5/16 x 3 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.2 x 26.2 cm (13 7/8 x 10 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.129.22

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Calabi 1937, no. II, 16

Associated Artworks

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Daniela Laube Inc. Fine Art, New York); purchased 2009 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1937

  • Calabi, A., and A. Schreiber-Favre. "Les eaux-fortes et les lithographies d'Alexandre Calame " Die graphischen Kunste 2 (1937): II, 16

2009

  • Daniela Laube Fine Art, Catalogue 6, 2009. no. 22.

Inscriptions

along right edge in plate: A Calame pinx et aqua fort Geneve 1840; by later hand in graphite: 1840 Calabi II, 16

Wikidata ID

Q76555011

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