Artworks · Georges Rouault

The Poor Church

1929 · Gouache and black watercolor, with pastel on ivory wove watercolor paper

52 × 36.7 cm (20 1/2 × 14 1/2 in.)

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District of Long Hardships (The Poor Family), from La Petite Banlieue

1929 · Lithograph on ivory wove paper

Image: 33.4 × 22.3 cm (13 3/16 × 8 13/16 in.); Sheet: 45 × 31 cm (17 3/4 × 12 1/4 in.)

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De Profundis, from La Petite Banlieue

1929 · Lithograph on ivory wove paper

Image: 33 × 22 cm (13 × 8 11/16 in.); Sheet: 45 × 31.5 cm (17 3/4 × 12 7/16 in.)

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Self-Portrait III, from La Petite Banlieue

1929 · Color lithograph in black, ochre, green and bistre on white wove paper

Image: 34 × 24.5 cm (13 7/16 × 9 11/16 in.); Sheet: 56 × 41.5 cm (22 1/16 × 16 3/8 in.)

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Maria Lani

1928 · Black oil paint, gouache, and touches of gum on ivory wove paper

44 × 32.4 cm (17 3/8 × 12 13/16 in.)

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The Three Judges

1928 · Oil and gouache on paper, mounted on cardboard and backed with canvas

75.1 × 55 cm (29 9/16 × 21 5/8 in.)

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The Flying Fish, from Reincarnations du Père Ubu

1928 · Etching with line, aquatint, burnishing, sugar lift and roulette on cream wove paper

Image: 22 × 31 cm (8 11/16 × 12 1/4 in.); Sheet: 33 × 43 cm (13 × 16 15/16 in.)

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Père Ubu, Songster, from Reincarnations du Père Ubu

1928 · Etching with etched line, marked with stipple, burnisher and roulette, on cream wove paper

Image: 31 × 20 cm (12 1/4 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 43 × 33 cm (16 15/16 × 13 in.)

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Gustave Moreau, from Souvenir Intimes

1927 · Lithograph on ivory wove paper

Image: 23 × 17 cm (9 1/16 × 6 3/4 in.); Sheet: 45 × 32.5 cm (17 3/4 × 12 13/16 in.)

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Satan IV, plate twelve from Les Fleurs du Mal

1927 · Etching, drypoint, sugar-lift, burnishing on off-white wove paper

Plate: 34.5 × 25 cm (13 5/8 × 9 7/8 in.); Sheet: 38 × 28.5 cm (15 × 11 1/4 in.)

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When You Were Sleeping, My Beautiful Gloomy One, plate six from Les Fleurs du Mal

1927 · Etching, drypoint, roulette, scraping and burnishing on ivory wove paper

Plate: 26 × 36 cm (10 1/4 × 14 3/16 in.); Sheet: 32.5 × 44.5 cm (12 13/16 × 17 9/16 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

1927 · Heliogravure, with sugar-lift aquatint, burnishing, and drypoint on paper

Plate: 58.5 × 43.3 cm (23 1/16 × 17 1/16 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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De profundis, plate 47 from Miserere

1927 · Heliogravure, with aquatint, burnishing, and drypoint on paper

Plate: 43 × 60 cm (16 15/16 × 23 5/8 in.); Sheet: 50.5 × 65.5 cm (19 15/16 × 25 13/16 in.)

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

1927 · Heliogravure, sugar- lift, scraping, burnishing, and drypoint on paper

Plate: 58.8 × 43 cm (23 3/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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

1927 · Heliogravure, with sugar-lift, burnishing, drypoint and scraping on paper

Plate: 57 × 45 cm (22 1/2 × 17 3/4 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Self-Portrait, from Souvenirs Intimes

1927 · Lithograph in black on ivory wove paper

Image: 23 × 17.2 cm (9 1/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Sheet: 46.8 × 33 cm (18 7/16 × 13 in.)

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Trial proof for Lord, It Is Thou, I Know Thee!, plate XXXII from Miserere

1927 · Aquatint and drypoint with roulette over photogravure, with pen and ink additions

plate: 22 5/8 x 17 11/16" (57.4 x 45 cm); sheet (irreg.): 25 11/16 x 19 7/8" (65.3 x 50.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Trial proof for In These Dark Times Of Vainglory And Unbelief, Our Lady of Land's End Keeps Vigil, plate LVI from Miserere

1927 · Aquatint, etching, and drypoint with roulette over photogravure

plate: 23 1/4 x 17 1/8" (59 x 43.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 25 1/2 x 19 13/16" (64.8 x 50.3 cm)

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Trial proof for Out Of The Depths..., plate XLVII from Miserere

1927 · Aquatint and drypoint with roulette over photogravure

plate: 17 x 23 3/4" (43.2 x 60.3 cm); sheet (irreg.): 19 7/8 x 25 11/16" (50.5 x 65.2 cm)

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Trial proof for War, Which All Mothers Hate, plate XLII from Miserere

1927 · Aquatint and drypoint with roulette over photogravure, with pen and ink additions

plate: 23 1/8 x 17 7/16" (58.8 x 44.3 cm); sheet (irreg.): 25 9/16 x 19 13/16" (65 x 50.3 cm)

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Trial proof for This Will Be The Last Time, Little Father!, plate XXXVI from Miserere

1927 · Aquatint and drypoint with roulette over photogravure

plate: 23 3/8 x 17" (59.3 x 43.2 cm); sheet (irreg.): 25 11/16 x 19 3/4" (65.2 x 50.1 cm)

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Virgin of the Seven Swords, plate 53 from Miserere

1926 · Heliogravure, with sugar-lift aquatint, burnishing, and drypoint on paper

Plate: 57.5 × 40.8 cm (22 11/16 × 16 1/8 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Virgin of the Seven Swords, plate 53 from Miserere

1926 · Heliogravure, with sugar-lift aquatint, burnishing, and drypoint, with touches of blue chalk on paper

Plate: 57.5 × 40.8 cm (22 11/16 × 16 1/8 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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With Tooth and Nail, plate 50 from Miserere

1926 · Heliogravure, with sugar-lift aquatint, scraping, burnishing, and drypoint on paper

Plate: 57.2 × 44.2 cm (22 9/16 × 17 7/16 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

1926 · Heliogravure, with scraping, burnishing, roulette, and drypoint on paper

Plate: 57.5 × 41 cm (22 11/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Even the Ruins Have Been Destroyed, plate 34 from Miserere

1926 · Heliogravure, with sugar-lift, scraping, roulette, and drypoint on paper

Plate: 57.5 × 44.5 cm (22 11/16 × 17 9/16 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Mortality has her Tears, plate 27 from Miserere

1926 · Heliogravure with sugar-lift aquatint, drypoint, burnishing on paper

Plate: 58 × 42 cm (22 7/8 × 16 9/16 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Are we not Slaves?, plate six from Miserere

1926 · Heliogravure, burnishing, drypoint, roulette on paper

Plate: 59 × 43.5 cm (23 1/4 × 17 3/16 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Virgin of the Seven Swords, plate 53 from Miserere

1926 · Heliogravure, with aquatint and brush on paper

Plate: 57.5 × 40.8 cm (22 11/16 × 16 1/8 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Gustave Moreau (with a small hat), from Souvenirs Intimes

1926 · Lithograph on ivory wove paper

Image: 23 × 17 cm (9 1/16 × 6 3/4 in.); Sheet: 32.5 × 25 cm (12 13/16 × 9 7/8 in.)

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Verlaine

1926 · Lithograph on paper

Image: 28.2 × 32 cm (11 1/8 × 12 5/8 in.); Sheet: 61 × 45.6 cm (24 1/16 × 18 in.)

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

1926 · Aquatint on paper

Plate: 58.5 × 43 cm (23 1/16 × 16 15/16 in.); Sheet: 65.5 × 50.5 cm (25 13/16 × 19 15/16 in.)

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Self-Portrait with Cap

1926 · Lithograph

composition: 9 3/16 x 6 13/16" (23.3 x 17.3cm); sheet: 12 15/16 x 9 15/16" (32.9 x 25.3cm)

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Self Portrait

1926 · Lithograph

composition: 13 11/16 x 9 13/16" (34.7 x 24.9 cm)

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Baudelaire: Les Fleurs du mal. Bride and Groom,

1926 · Aquatint, drypoint and roulette

plate: 12 5/16 x 9 3/4" (31.3 x 24.7 cm); sheet: 17 1/2 x 13 3/16" (44.4 x 33.5 cm)

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Léon Bloy

1926 · Lithograph

composition: 9 1/4 x 6 9/16" (23.5 x 16.7cm); sheet: 12 7/8 x 9 13/16" (32.7 x 25cm)

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J. K. Huysmans

1926 · Lithograph

composition: 9 1/8 x 6 3/4" (23.2 x 17.2cm); sheet: 12 7/8 x 9 13/16" (32.7 x 24.9cm)

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Trial proof for In All Things, Tears..., plate XXVII from Miserere

1926 · Aquatint and drypoint with roulette over photogravure, with pen and ink additions

plate: 22 13/16 x 16 9/16" (58 x 42.1 cm); sheet (irreg.): 25 11/16 x 19 7/8" (65.2 x 50.5 cm)

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Trial proof for Face To Face, plate XL from Miserere

1926 · Aquatint, etching, and drypoint with roulette over photogravure

plate: 22 5/8 x 17 1/8" (57.5 x 43.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 25 11/16 x 19 3/4" (65.3 x 50.2 cm)

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Trial proof for "With Tooth and Nail," plate L from Miserere

1926 · Aquatint and drypoint over photogravure, with pen and ink additions

plate: 22 11/16 x 17 1/2" (57.6 x 44.5 cm); sheet (irreg.): 25 9/16 x 19 7/8" (65 x 50.5 cm)

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Trial proof for Man Is A Wolf To Man, plate XXXVII from Miserere

1926 · Aquatint and drypoint over photogravure, with pen and ink additions

plate: 23 1/16 x 16 9/16" (58.5 x 42 cm); sheet (irreg.): 25 11/16 x 19 15/16" (65.3 x 50.7 cm)

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Trial proof for The Law Is Hard, But It Is The Law, plate LII from Miserere

1926 · Aquatint and drypoint with roulette over photogravure

plate: 22 1/2 x 17 1/4" (57.2 x 43.8 cm); sheet (irreg.): 25 5/8 x 19 3/4" (65.1 x 50.1 cm)

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Trial proof for Sometimes The Blind Have Comforted Those Who See, plate LV from Miserere

1926 · Aquatint, etching, and drypoint with roulette over photogravure, with pen and ink additions

plate: 23 1/16 x 17 3/16" (58.5 x 43.7 cm); sheet (irreg.): 25 9/16 x 19 13/16" (65 x 50.3 cm)

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Trial proof for Beneath a Forgotten Crucifix, plate XX from Miserere

1926 · Aquatint and drypoint with roulette over photogravure

plate: 22 15/16 x 16 7/16" (58.3 x 41.7 cm); sheet (irreg.): 25 13/16 x 19 7/8" (65.5 x 50.5 cm)

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Plus le coeur est noble, moins le col est roide (The Nobler the Heart, the Less Stiff the Collar) for the illustrated book Miserere

1926 · Aquatint, drypoint and photogravure with ink additions

plate: 23 1/16 x 16 5/8" (58.6 x 42.3 cm); sheet: 25 9/16 x 19 3/4" (65 x 50.2 cm)

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Trial proof for "They Have Ruined Even the Ruins," plate XXXIV from Miserere

1926 · Aquatint, lift ground aquatint, and drypoint with roulette over photogravure

plate: 22 13/16 x 17 9/16" (58 x 44.6 cm); sheet (irreg.): 25 1/2 x 19 7/8" (64.8 x 50.5 cm)

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Are We Not All Convicts? (Ne sommes-nous pas forçats?), plate VI from Miserere

1926 · Aquatint and drypoint with roulette over photogravure from an illustrated book with 22 aquatints over photogravure (19 with drypoint, 18 with roulette, five with etching)

plate: 23 3/8 x 17 3/16" (59.3 x 43.7 cm)

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"The Righteous, like Sandalwood, Perfume the Axe That Falls on Them" («Le Juste comme le bois de santal parfume la hache qui le frappe»), plate XLVI from Miserere

1926 · Aquatint and drypoint with roulette over photogravure from an illustrated book with 22 aquatints over photogravure (19 with drypoint, 18 with roulette, five with etching)

plate: 23 1/4 x 16 9/16" (59 x 42.1 cm)

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