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Maker(s):Rops, Felicien
Culture:Belgian (1833-1898)
Title:Les Bas-Fonds de la societe; The Low Life of Society [black/gray version]
Date Made:1864
Type:Print
Materials:Etching on thin buff paper mounted on discarded, crossed-out print of Michel Chavalier
Place Made:Europe; France; Paris
Measurements:sheet: 12 1/8 x 8 5/8 in.; 30.7975 x 21.9075 cm; image: 8 x 6 1/16 in.; 20.32 x 15.3988 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Recto: lwr. r., under image (red pencil): Rops. Recto of mount: lwr. l. (graphite): Frontispiece; lwr. ctr. (graphite): etat, [...] originale de Rops / [...]; lwr. r. (graphite): 20 +.
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.371
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.

Subjects:
Etching

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