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Portfolio wrapper with two illustrations

Valère Bernard (French, 1860–1936)

1896

Medium/Technique Printed text; etchings with aquatint.

Dimensions Overall: 63 x 44 cm (24 13/16 x 17 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Gift of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo

Accession Number2010.1316.8

NOT ON VIEW

CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings

ClassificationsPrints

Tan paper wrapper for portfolio. Front cover printed with title, "Valère Bernard, Suite de 6 eaux-fortes avec 2 vignettes pour la couverture - 1896"; and printer/publisher information: "par L'Ymagier, 9, rue de Varennes". Front cover vignette: Enfant prodigue. Rear cover printed with titles for six etchings, and two vignettes. Rear cover vignette: Cul-de-Lampe, profile of a woman's head. L'Ymagier was an Illustrated journal published from October 1894 to December 1896; MFA owns seven (of eight total) issues (1989.177-1989.183). Rémy De Gourmont and Alfred Jarry were the editors, and contributed many texts. The journal was creditied with the revival of the woodcut. They also printed editions of the work of many symbolist artists, including Gauguin,Robertson, Emile Bernard and the douanier Rousseau.

DescriptionTan paper wrapper for portfolio. Front cover printed with title, "Valère Bernard, Suite de 6 eaux-fortes avec 2 vignettes pour la couverture - 1896"; and printer/publisher information: "par L'Ymagier, 9, rue de Varennes". Front cover vignette: Enfant prodigue. Rear cover printed with titles for six etchings, and two vignettes. Rear cover vignette::Cul-de-Lampe (profile of woman's head).

Signed On Cul-de-Lampe, artist's monogram ur in plate:VB
On Enfant prodigue, artist's monogram lr in plate: VB

ProvenanceBetween the 1950s and 1980s, acquired by Samuel Josefowitz, Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England; March 19, 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo, Marblehead, MA and Naples, FL; 2010, year-end gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)