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Maker(s):Rops, Felicien
Culture:Belgian (1833-1898)
Title:Les Bas-Fonds de la societe; The Low Life of Society [brown version]
Date Made:n.r.
Type:Print
Materials:Heliogravure and etching? on thin buff paper
Place Made:Europe; France; Paris
Measurements:sheet: 12 1/8 x 8 5/16 in.; 30.7975 x 21.1138 cm; image: 9 3/16 x 7 1/8 in.; 23.3363 x 18.0975 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Unsigned. Recto: lwr. l. (graphite): 1722; ctr., on camera (in plate): BASIL[...] / DE LA / SOCIETE / PAR / JOSEPH / PRUDHOMME / PHOTOGRAPHE / A / PARIS; lwr. ctr., on well (in plate): VERITE; lwr. r. (graphite): E 463.
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.372
Credit Line:Bequest of Helene Brosseau Black (Class of 1931)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
This print depicts a woman, nude except for shoes, sitting on well edge at bottom of image; well has "verite" on it. Box camera in center of image with skeletal jester on left and fat man on the right with inscription printed on it; 4 boxes on each side of camera with images of people in each.
Frontispiece for "Gaite Francaise" by Henri Monnier.

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