Le Sacrifice d'Abraham (The Sacrifice of Abraham ; Abraham's Sacrifice), from the series Bible I
Marc Chagall, Russian-French, born Belarus, 1887 - 1985
published 1956
Etching and aquatint on wove paper
295
Plate: 12 1/16 × 9 7/16 in. (30.6 × 23.9 cm)
Sheet: 17 5/16 × 12 13/16 in. (44 × 32.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase
PR.955.68
Publisher
Tériade Editeur, Paris
Geography
Place Made: Russia, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin: Le Sacrifice d'abraham [in later hand]; inscribed, in graphite, lower left: Abraham's Sacriffice 112-26 [in later hand]
Course History
SART 27, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2012
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2012
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, II, III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I: Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2013
SART 27, SART 28, Printmaking I-Intaglio, Printmaking II, Louise Hamlin, Winter 2014
SART 27, SART 28, SART 74, Printmaking I, Printmaking II, Printmaking III, Louise Hamlin, Spring 2014
Exhibition History
Critical Faculties: Teaching with the Hood's Collections, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 15-March 13, 2005.
In conjunction with Art 48 (Barbara Walsh), Lower Jewitt Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4-May 8, 1981.
Plymouth State College Art Galleries, Plymouth, New Hampshire, January 22-February 28, 1979.
Treasures from the Print Collection, Beaumont-May Gallery, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 3-August 17, 1980.
Provenance
Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland; sold to present collection, 1955.
Catalogue Raisonne
Cramer 29
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