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Maker(s):Chahine, Edgar
Culture:French (1874-1947)
Title:Vieille mendiante dans une Eglise [An old Beggar woman in a church]
Date Made:1920
Type:Print
Materials:aquatint printed in black on medium thick, rough, beige paper
Measurements:Sheet: 21 7/8 in x 14 5/8 in; 55.6 cm x 37.1 cm
Narrative Inscription:  initialed and dated in plate at lower left; E.C. / 1920; siganture and edition in pencil below image at lower left: Edgar Chahine 8/30. Blindstamp of Edmond-Honore Sagot, Chahine's editor, l.l recto.
Accession Number:  SC 2014.32.7
Credit Line:The Gladys Engel Lang and Kurt Lang Collection
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art

Description:
Image of old woman, wearing black cap and shawl over white dress and carrying cane, looking down sadly. Church interior with portal decoration and statuette of Mary Magdalene in background. Under statuette stands man on two crutches, with pants rolled to expose a deformed leg. Beggars, poor, destitute, church interior, interior scene, realism, deformity, crutch, cane, church sculpture

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