L'Épreuve (album 3, deluxe edition)
Medium
portfolio
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
1996.151.44-66
Art Historical Context
**L'Épreuve (Album 3, Deluxe Edition, published in 1895 by Dumont, stands as a remarkable collaborative portfolio that unites an impressive roster of French fin-de-siècle artists. Contributors include luminaries such as Henri Fantin-Latour, known for his intimate realist portraits; Jacques-Émile Blanche, a master of elegant society scenes; the provocative Félicien Rops;-Louis Forain, with his incisive caricatures; and others like Paul-Édouard Crébassa, Gustave-Henri Jossot, Georges Daniel de Monfreid, Eugène Delâtre (after Paul Gauguin), and Paul-César Helleu. This deluxe edition, part of a se...