The Acid Thrower (Vitrioleuse)

1894, Eugène Grasset (1841 - 1917)

photomechanical reproduction in black, stenciled with watercolour, on laid paper, 58.8 cm x 41.5 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)

What is it?
What can you see?
Context
designer
printmaker
printer
publisher
compiler album
writer preface

Object data

Object number
p1044V2000
Edition
30/100
Dimensions
58.8 cm x 41.5 cm, 34.8 cm x 27.6 cm
Catalogue raisonné
Stein & Karshan 30, Boyer & Cate 30

Inscription/label

signature and number
EGrasset No30
monogram
EG by Grasset, Eugène
monogram
VDH sc. by Verdoux, Ducourtioux & Huillard
blind embossing
ESTAMPE ORIGINALE by Charpentier, Alexandre-Louis-Marie, Lugt no. 819
number
- 0555 -
number
83/18

Literature

  • Victor Arwas, Berthon & Grasset, 1978, p. 64-73
  • Roger Marx, un critique aux côtés de Gallé, Monet, Rodin, Gauguin..., 2006, p. 274-277, 299
  • ed. by Paul Greenhalgh, Art Nouveau 1890-1914, 2000, p. 151
  • Gabriel P. Weisberg ...[et al.], Japonisme : Japanese influence on French art 1854-1910, 1975, p. 62, 97
  • with essays by Patricia Eckert Boyer, Phillip Dennis Cate, l'Estampe originale : artistic printmaking in France 1893-1895, 1991, p. 14-15, 33-34, 38
  • Anne Murray-Robertson ; preface Jean Adhémar ; introduction Philippe Junod, Grasset : pionnier de l'Art Nouveau, cop. 1981, p. 127, 207
  • [Phylis Floyd], Seeking the floating world : the Japanese spirit in turn-of-the-century french art, cop. 1989, no. 88
  • Phillip Dennis Cate, Gale B. Muray, Richard Thomson, Prints abound : Paris in the 1890s, from the collections of Virginia and Ira Jackson and the National Gallery of Art, 2000, p. 23-24, 103, 163
  • Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Marije Vellekoop, Prentkunst in Parijs : de rage van het fin de siècle, 2012, p. 38
  • Fleur Roos Rosa de Carvalho, Marije Vellekoop, Printmaking in Paris : the rage for prints at the fin de siècle, 2012, p. 38