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- Year
- 1865
- Dimensions
- Image: 28.1 × 20 cm (11 1/8 × 7 7/8 in.); Plate: 31.8 × 23.6 cm (12 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 44 × 32.7 cm (17 3/8 × 12 7/8 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Artist
- Augustin Théodule Ribot
Artist
Printmaking
Augustin Théodule Ribot was a French painter of the 19th century known for his historical and religious compositions rendered in a dramatic realist style. Active during the mid-to-late 1800s, he specialized in large-scale narrative works that engaged with moments of human suffering and moral complexity. His technical command of chiaroscuro and figure arrangement positioned him within the academic tradition while maintaining a psychological intensity that distinguished his approach to historical subject matter.
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1878 · Etching on cream laid Japanese paper
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1876 · intaglio printmaking technique on paper
Card Players
1873 · pen and brown ink with watercolor and gouache over black crayon, heightened with white gouache on card
Head of an Old Woman
1865 · pen and brown ink with brown wash on brown laid paper
The Prayer
1862 · Etching on ivory laid paper
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- Augustin Théodule Ribot
- Year
- 1865
- Dimensions
- Image: 28.1 × 20 cm (11 1/8 × 7 7/8 in.); Plate: 31.8 × 23.6 cm (12 9/16 × 9 5/16 in.); Sheet: 44 × 32.7 cm (17 3/8 × 12 7/8 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1865-077713
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
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