Artworks · Georges Rouault

Miserere: Christ Blessing Three Men

1949 · Heliogravure on paper

Plate: 61.6 × 46.4 cm (24 5/16 × 18 5/16 in.); Sheet: 65.2 × 50.4 cm (25 11/16 × 19 7/8 in.)

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Christ Seated

1949 · Wood block

29.6 × 19.9 × 2.2 cm (11 11/16 × 7 7/8 × 7/8 in.)

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Georges Rouault Collection

1946 · Correspondence, printed papers and black and white photographic prints.

1 box: W.: 15.3 cm (6 in.)

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Obedient unto death and to death on the cross, plate 57 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58.2 × 42.5 cm (22 15/16 × 16 3/4 in.); Sheet: 65.1 × 50.6 cm (25 11/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Virgin of the Seven Swords, plate 53 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58 × 41 cm (22 7/8 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet: 65.6 × 50.7 cm (25 7/8 × 20 in.)

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Sometimes a blind man has consoled the seeing, plate 55 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58.5 × 43.7 cm (23 1/16 × 17 1/4 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.8 cm (25 13/16 × 20 in.)

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Arise, you who are dead!, plate 54 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 59.3 × 44.4 cm (23 3/8 × 17 1/2 in.); Sheet: 65.2 × 50.8 cm (25 11/16 × 20 in.)

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It is by His Wounds that We are Healed, plate 58 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58.1 × 47.2 cm (22 7/8 × 18 5/8 in.); Sheet: 65.9 × 50.4 cm (26 × 19 7/8 in.)

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In These Dark Times of Vanity and Unbelief, Our Lady of The Ends of the Earth keeps watch, plate 56 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58.9 × 43.4 cm (23 1/4 × 17 1/8 in.); Sheet: 65 × 50.6 cm (25 5/8 × 19 15/16 in.)

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The more noble the heart, the less stiff the neck, plate 49 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58.4 × 42.2 cm (23 × 16 5/8 in.); Sheet: 64.9 × 50.3 cm (25 9/16 × 19 13/16 in.)

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Distant from the smile of Rheims, plate 51 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 51.2 × 38.5 cm (20 3/16 × 15 3/16 in.); Sheet: 65.9 × 50.8 cm (26 × 20 in.)

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With Tooth and Nail, plate 50 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 57.7 × 44.5 cm (22 3/4 × 17 9/16 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.8 cm (25 13/16 × 20 in.)

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The Law is Hard, but it is the Law, plate 52 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 57.1 × 43.5 cm (22 1/2 × 17 3/16 in.); Sheet: 65.3 × 50.5 cm (25 3/4 × 19 15/16 in.)

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De profundis, plate 47 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 43.3 × 60 cm (17 1/16 × 23 5/8 in.); Sheet: 51 × 65.6 cm (20 1/8 × 25 7/8 in.)

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Death Took Him as He Rose from His Bed of Nettles, plate 45 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 53.9 × 33.4 cm (21 1/4 × 13 3/16 in.); Sheet: 65.3 × 50.7 cm (25 3/4 × 20 in.)

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The just man, like sandalwood, perfumes the blade that cuts him down, plate 46 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 59 × 42 cm (23 1/4 × 16 9/16 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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War, Hated by Mothers, plate 42 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58.6 × 44.5 cm (23 1/8 × 17 9/16 in.); Sheet: 64.3 × 50.3 cm (25 3/8 × 19 13/16 in.)

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In the Wine-Press, the Grape was Crushed, plate 48 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 39.5 × 48.5 cm (15 9/16 × 19 1/8 in.); Sheet: 50.8 × 65.6 cm (20 × 25 7/8 in.)

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My sweet country, were are you?, plate 44 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 42.3 × 59.8 cm (16 11/16 × 23 9/16 in.); Sheet: 51 × 65.3 cm (20 1/8 × 25 3/4 in.)

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Omens, plate 41 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 50.7 × 43.7 cm (20 × 17 1/4 in.); Sheet: 65.3 × 50.7 cm (25 3/4 × 20 in.)

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Face to Face, plate 40 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 57.4 × 43.8 cm (22 5/8 × 17 1/4 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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The Chinese, They Say, Invented Gunpowder and Made Us a Gift of it, plate 38 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 57.5 × 41.5 cm (22 11/16 × 16 3/8 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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We Have to Die, We and All That is Ours, plate 43 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 51.5 × 36.4 cm (20 5/16 × 14 3/8 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.7 cm (25 13/16 × 20 in.)

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Man is Wolf to Man, plate 37 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58.4 × 42 cm (23 × 16 9/16 in.); Sheet: 65.2 × 50.6 cm (25 11/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Even the Ruins Have Been Destroyed, plate 34 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58.3 × 44.9 cm (23 × 17 11/16 in.); Sheet: 65.2 × 50.2 cm (25 11/16 × 19 13/16 in.)

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We Are Fools, plate 39 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 56.8 × 41.5 cm (22 3/8 × 16 3/8 in.); Sheet: 64.8 × 50.4 cm (25 9/16 × 19 7/8 in.)

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And Veronica, with her gentle cloth, still passes along the way, plate 33 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 43.8 × 43 cm (17 1/4 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 65.7 × 50.7 cm (25 7/8 × 20 in.)

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Jesus Will Be in Agony Until the End of the World, plate 35 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58 × 41.3 cm (22 7/8 × 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 65.3 × 50.4 cm (25 3/4 × 19 7/8 in.)

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This Will Be the Last Time, Dear Father!, plate 36 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 59.2 × 43.4 cm (23 5/16 × 17 1/8 in.); Sheet: 64.9 × 50.7 cm (25 9/16 × 20 in.)

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Love One Another, plate 31 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 59.3 × 42.8 cm (23 3/8 × 16 7/8 in.); Sheet: 65.1 × 50.6 cm (25 11/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Mortality has her Tears, plate 27 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58.2 × 42.1 cm (22 15/16 × 16 5/8 in.); Sheet: 64.7 × 50.7 cm (25 1/2 × 20 in.)

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Sing the morning mass, a new day is born, plate 29 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 51.1 × 36.5 cm (20 1/8 × 14 3/8 in.); Sheet: 65.3 × 50.3 cm (25 3/4 × 19 13/16 in.)

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It is In His Death that We Have Been Haptized, plate 30 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 55.2 × 42.4 cm (21 3/4 × 16 3/4 in.); Sheet: 66 × 50.8 cm (26 × 20 in.)

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Lord, it is You, Who I Recognize, plate 32 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 57.2 × 44.9 cm (22 9/16 × 17 11/16 in.); Sheet: 65 × 50.2 cm (25 5/8 × 19 13/16 in.)

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Jean-Francois never sings Alleluia, plate 25 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 59 × 42.6 cm (23 1/4 × 16 13/16 in.); Sheet: 65.8 × 50.6 cm (25 15/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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In the land of thirst and fear, plate 26 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 41.4 × 58.3 cm (16 5/16 × 23 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 65.3 cm (19 15/16 × 25 3/4 in.)

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Street of the Lonely, plate 23 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 36.4 × 50.6 cm (14 3/8 × 19 15/16 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 65 cm (19 15/16 × 25 5/8 in.)

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He that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live, plate 28 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 65 × 50.5 cm (25 5/8 × 19 15/16 in.); Sheet: 65 × 50.5 cm (25 5/8 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Winter, Earth's Leper, plate 24 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 51.4 × 36.8 cm (20 1/4 × 14 1/2 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.8 cm (25 13/16 × 20 in.)

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A Woman Freed..., plate seventeen from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 55.9 × 43.1 cm (22 1/16 × 17 in.); Sheet: 65.4 × 50.6 cm (25 3/4 × 19 15/16 in.)

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He was oppressed and afflicted but he never opened his mouth, plate 21 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58 × 41 cm (22 7/8 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet: 65.1 × 50.2 cm (25 11/16 × 19 13/16 in.)

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His lawyer, in hollow phrases, proclaims his total thoughtlessness, plate nineteen from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 53.7 × 40.8 cm (21 3/16 × 16 1/8 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.7 cm (25 13/16 × 20 in.)

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Among so many different commands lies the beautiful task of sowing on a hostile earth, plate 22 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 59 × 43 cm (23 1/4 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 65 × 50.4 cm (25 5/8 × 19 7/8 in.)

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Beneath Jesus on the forgotten cross, plate 20 from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 58.2 × 41.7 cm (22 15/16 × 16 7/16 in.); Sheet: 65.1 × 50.5 cm (25 11/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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The Privileged Lady Thinks She has a Reserved Seat in Heaven, plate sixteen from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 57.4 × 41.4 cm (22 5/8 × 16 5/16 in.); Sheet: 65.3 × 50.8 cm (25 3/4 × 20 in.)

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The Condemned Man has left, plate eighteen from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 50.5 × 34.5 cm (19 15/16 × 13 5/8 in.); Sheet: 65.7 × 50.7 cm (25 7/8 × 20 in.)

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A Girl, Called Joy, plate fourteen from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 50.9 × 36.6 cm (20 1/16 × 14 7/16 in.); Sheet: 66 × 50.7 cm (26 × 20 in.)

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Life is Hard, plate twelve from Miserere

1945 · Etching on paper

Image/plate: 48 × 36.1 cm (18 15/16 × 14 1/4 in.); Sheet: 65.4 × 50.5 cm (25 3/4 × 19 15/16 in.)

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