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Plate with two subjects
Two Scenes (one with lightning)
Plate with two subjects
Maxime Lalanne (French, 1827–1886)
French
1866
Medium/Technique
Etching on India paper
Dimensions
Platemark: 3.4 × 9.6 cm (1 5/16 × 3 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 22.8 × 16.5 cm (9 × 6 1/2 in.)
Sheet: 22.8 × 16.5 cm (9 × 6 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession NumberK4507
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Beraldi (1889) 23 - 30; Villet (2016) 30, iii / v; Lalanne (1882) 27 - 34; Bibliothèque Nationale (1932) 12; Gutekunst (1905) 23 - 30
DescriptionIssued as an illustration for Lalanne's "Traité de la Gravure."
Signed
In plate Figure 2: l.l. M L
Marks
Verso, in purple ink, the collector's mark of Sylvester Koehler (Lugt 1580)
Verso, in purple ink, the mark of the MFA's Koehler Coll. No. 4507 (number in graphite) (Lugt 1581)
Verso, in purple ink, the mark of the MFA's Koehler Coll. No. 4507 (number in graphite) (Lugt 1581)
InscriptionsUpper center, in plate: Pl. 5.
In upper image, upper left: Fig. 1.
In lower image, lower right. M L
In lower image, at upper left: Fig. 2.
Verso, lower right, in graphite: 23 - 30
In upper image, upper left: Fig. 1.
In lower image, lower right. M L
In lower image, at upper left: Fig. 2.
Verso, lower right, in graphite: 23 - 30
ProvenanceBy 1898, Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900; Lugt 1580), Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA.
NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.
NOTE: Koehler was the first print curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.