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Chloe washing the back of Daphnis in a stream (after Camille Pissarro) (Illustration to Longus' Daphne and Chloe) (circa 1906)

Lucien Pissarro

wood-engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Chloe washing the back of Daphnis in a stream (after Camille Pissarro) (Illustration to Longus' Daphne and Chloe) (circa 1906)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Details

Classification:

Book Illustration, Print

Physical Object Description:

Chloe washing the back of Daphnis in a stream, with a flock of sheep behind, after Camille Pissarro. c.1906? Wood-engraving. In pencil in margin "4/20 [monogram] sc. & imp." and with CP cut in block. In ink below 'Illustration to Daphnis and Chloe".

Technique:

Wood-engraving

Dimensions:

23.3 x 10.8 cm

Accession Number:

1924,0209.120

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1924

Scheme:

Prints and Drawings Fund (1919 - 1954)

Ownership history:

Purchased from Chenil &Co by Campbell Dodgson for the Contemporary Art Society, December 1920; presented to the British Museum, 1924

Relationship:

Campbell Dodgson Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London Charles Chenil & Co. Ltd (Chenil Gallery), London

Subject:

Greek and Roman mythology

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Artist Bio

Lucien Pissarro
Chloe washing the back of Daphnis in a stream (after Camille Pissarro) (Illustration to Longus' Daphne and Chloe) (circa 1906)

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