Le Suicide

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps|Bertauts|Eugène Leroux

1846 · Lithograph on chine collé; proof · Drawings and Prints

The palette, pistol, and note lying on the floor indicate that an artist, overcome by adversity, has tragically taken his life. This lithograph reproduces a painting by Decamps of ca. 1836, now at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, whose subject may have been suggested by the 1835 suicides of fellow artists Léopold Robert and Baron Antoine-Jean Gros–the latter distressed by harsh criticism of his late paintings. The print is number 59 in the series "Les Artistes Contemporains."

Artist

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps|Bertauts|Eugène Leroux

Date

1846

Medium

Lithograph on chine collé; proof

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of Donato Esposito, 2015