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Maker(s):Rops, Felicien
Culture:Belgian (1833-1898)
Title:La Lyre; The Lyre [large plate]
Date Made:1887
Type:Print
Materials:Softground etching on cream wove paper
Place Made:Europe; France; Paris
Measurements:sheet: 18 1/8 in x 12 1/8 in; 46.0375 cm x 30.7975 cm; plate: 11 3/4 in x 6 1/16 in; 29.845 cm x 15.39875 cm; image: 10 7/16 in x 4 3/8 in; 26.51125 cm x 11.1125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Recto: lwr. l. (in plate): Felicien Rops; lwr. l. (graphite): 69; ctr. bot. (graphite): 27; lwr. r. (in plate): AD ASTRA; lwr. r. (graphite): Ex-Libris...s4a / 3.50...mulla [...]; lwr. r. (collector's stamp / blue ink): [oval stamp with figures in white inside it].
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.388
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 nude woman sitting in profile on chair on pedestal with winged skeletal horse and rider and AD ASTRA on pedestal; woman is holding lyre with strings going up into the sky and another set of hands playing the lyre; skeletal hands reaching towards seated woman from the sides; skulls at woman's feet (no marginal sketches).

Subjects:
Etching

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