Title(s)

Reproductie van La Mort d'Orphée door Gustave Doré
La Mort d'Orphee (title on object)

Object type

• photomechanical print
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-1569-23

Inscriptions / marks

• name: ‘G. Doré/ Fragment du tableau exposé au salon de 1879.’

Artist

• photographer: Charles Michelez (mentioned on object)
• Goupil & Cie. (mentioned on object)
• after design by: Gustave Doré (mentioned on object)
• printer: Goupil & Cie. (mentioned on object)

Dating

c. 1874 - c. 1879

Material

• paper

Technique

Woodburytype

Measurements

height 249 mm × width 182 mm

What

• death of Orpheus: he is torn to pieces by the Thracian women during a Bacchic orgy

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Is part of

• Gustave Doré : peintre, sculpteur, dessinateur et graveur (RP-F-2001-7-1569)