La Porte des Rêves

Provenance

Gaston Héliot (bookplate, 1926). (Sims Reed, London); purchased 2016 by NGA.

La Porte des Rêves

Feure, Georges de

1899

Accession Number

2016.99.2

Medium

bound volume with fold-out etched frontispiece in 2 tones and hand-colored; 16 full-page wood engravings; 100 illustrated borders from 32 blocks; and 15 culs-de-lampe on wove paper

Dimensions

book: 29.2 × 23.3 × 2.1 cm (11 1/2 × 9 3/16 × 13/16 in.)

Classification

Volume

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Purchased for the Virginia and Ira Jackson Collection