Christ de Face
1938
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View on museum website →Medium
4-color sugar-lift aquatint on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 35 x 25 cm (13 3/4 x 9 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Mulder in memory of Daniel Jonathan Mulder and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1990.116.2
About the Artist
Georges Rouault
Georges-Henri Rouault was born on May 27, 1871, in a Paris cellar during the violent "Bloody Week" of the Paris Commune, when a stray shell destroyed his family's home in the working-class Belleville district. Raised by a carpenter father who worked at the Pleyel piano factory and a grandfather who collected prints by Honoré Daumier, Rembrandt, Courbet, and Manet, Rouault showed early artistic pro...