L'Épreuve (album 1, deluxe edition)
Medium
"grand luxe" album issued December 1894
Classification
Portfolio
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection, gift in memory of Virginia H. Jackson
Accession Number
1996.151.1-23
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Maurice Dumont (artist and publisher) and Eugène Carrière, Maurice Denis, Auguste-Hilaire Leveillé (after Rodin), Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand, Jean Danguy, Paul Edouard Crebassa, Gustave-Henri Jossot, Simon Albert Bussy, and Emile Coulon
**Maurice Dumont (1869–1899)** was a French painter, lithographer, engraver, poet, and influential publisher whose short career bridged Symbolist circles and the emerging Art Nouveau printmaking scene. Born in Coutances and raised in Avranches, he trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris as a free candidate, studying under Léon Bonnat and developing expertise in various graphic techniques. Du...