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Program for "Théatres l'Athénée"

Henry Somm · 1881

Henry Somm: French, 1844 - 1907

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Program for "Théatres l'Athénée"

1881

drypoint on wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 23 x 15 cm (9 1/16 x 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 27.5 x 18.4 cm (10 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.)
Collection no.
2002.53.1
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By the artist
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Henry Somm. Program for "Théatres l'Athénée". Henry Somm; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Somm,_Program_for_%22Th%C3%A9atres_l%27Ath%C3%A9n%C3%A9e%22,_1881,_NGA_124216.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Program for "Théatres l'Athénée" — Henry Somm. 1881.

Medium: drypoint on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 23 x 15 cm (9 1/16 x 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 27.5 x 18.4 cm (10 13/16 x 7 1/4 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2002.53.1. Gift of C. & J. Goodfriend.

Museum holding does not establish current display.

Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.

Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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Henry Somm. Program for "Théatres l'Athénée". Henry Somm; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Somm,_Program_for_%22Th%C3%A9atres_l%27Ath%C3%A9n%C3%A9e%22,_1881,_NGA_124216.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.