Sappho

Description

Dumont was an innovative printmaker who experimented with a variety of printmaking processes. Sappho-which depicts the ancient Greek poetess with a lyre in a grove of birch trees-appeared in Pan, an artistic journal, accompanied by an article about the gypsograph technique (see glossary). Dumont made several versions of Sappho, which is not surprising since he also wrote poetry.

Provenance

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Sappho

Maurice Dumont

1895

Accession Number

1991.153

Medium

gypsograph

Dimensions

Sheet: 27.6 x 36.6 cm (10 7/8 x 14 7/16 in.); Image: 12 x 19.1 cm (4 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Friends of the Department of Prints and Drawings