Theater Program for Sleeping Beauty, Silver Wedding, and Ahasvère
Medium
color lithograph on wove paper [proof before letters]
Dimensions
image: 21.6 × 17 cm (8 1/2 × 6 11/16 in.) sheet: 41.2 × 29.1 cm (16 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Purchased as the Gift of Jeff Atlas in memory of Liane and Martin Atlas
Accession Number
2019.121.1
About the Artist
Henri-Gabriel Ibels
Henri-Gabriel Ibels (1867–1936) was a French illustrator, printmaker, painter, and author born in Paris to parents of Dutch ancestry. His early life remains sparsely documented, but he trained at the Académie Julian alongside fellow students Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, where Paul Sérusier mentored him into the nascent Nabis group. In 1889, Ibels became a founding member of Les Nabis along...