About the Artwork
L' Approche du Soir
ca. 1893
Robert J. Wickenden
1861-1931
American
Unknown
Lithograph printed in black ink on china paper
Image: 5 1/8 × 8 1/2 inches (13 × 21.6 cm) Sheet: 11 × 14 inches (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
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Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S1249
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Markings
Signed, on stone, lower left: Robt. J. Wickenden
Inscribed, in pencil, center lower margin: L'Approche du Soir. | The grain that is ready to fall, | The day is ready to die, | The valley that soon must be passed, | And the cross, ever lifted on high. | Let me patiently wait by the Cross, | The end of my journey is near, | Though night with its darkness surround | God is nigh, and no evil I fear. | To my kind friend, James E. Scripps, Esq.- Robt. J. Wickenden, Paris, '97. Inscribed, center lower edge: No 1249- | Tiré è cent épreuvres, et éxposé au Salon de 1893 - Tableau original éxposé au Salon de 1889. Inscribed, in another hand: Original ( )
Provenance
Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Robert J. Wickenden, L' Approche du Soir, ca. 1893, lithograph printed in black ink on china paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1249.
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