Orpheus

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Orpheus

Currently not on view

Orpheus

Jean Cocteau, French, 1889–1963
x1960-86

Information

Title
Orpheus
Maker
Jean Cocteau
Medium

Color lithograph

Dimensions

image: 56 × 37.5 cm (22 1/16 × 14 3/4 in.)
sheet (sight): 68.5 × 55 cm (26 15/16 × 21 5/8 in.)
frame: 72.5 × 58.5 × 4.4 cm (28 9/16 × 23 1/16 × 1 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Hugh Trumbull Adams, Class of 1935

Object Number
x1960-86
Signatures

Signed and dated in stone, lowe left: Jean Cocteau / *1960
Signed in orange ink, lower right: Jean Cocteau

Culture
European, French
Type
color lithographs, prints
Subject
profiles (figures), wreaths (costume accessories), faces

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