Standards
- van Meckenem, Ecce Homo
- Dürer, Saint Jerome
- Dürer, The Little Courier
- Dürer, The Satyr Family
- Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
- Altdorfer, The Resurrection
- Beham, Peasant Couple
- Beham or Dürer, Bookplate
- Pencz, The Life of Christ
- Davent, Musicians
- Lautensack, Landscape
- Matham, The Planets
- Callot, Balli di Sfessania
- Callot, La Chasse au Cerf
- Rembrandt, Clement de Jonghe
- Rembrandt, The Goldsmith
- Della Bella, The Five Deaths
- Ostade, The Fiddler
- Both, The Five Senses
- Nanteuil, Hardouin de Beaumont
- Visscher, A Mouse in a Mouse Trap
- Masson, Guilllaume de Brisacier
- Piranesi, A View of the Temple
- Watson, Mrs. Hale as Euphrosyne
- Moreau, Les Petits Parains
- Janinet, Le Sommeil d’Arianne
- Blake, And My Servant Job
- Unknown Engraver, Frederick
- Gericault, Horses Going to a Fair
- Jacque, Les Musiciens
- Haden, A By-Road in Tipperary
- Meryon, Saint-Etienne-du-Mont
- Bresdin, La Sainte Famille
- Whistler, Battersea Dawn
- Whistler, Limehouse
- Fantin-Latour, Manfred and Astarte
- Legros, Le Grand Canal
- Buhot, La Place des Martyrs
- Forain, Le Calvaire (2e planche)
- Pennell, In the Mist of the Morning
- Hassam, The Old Mulford House
- Zorn, "Oxenstierna"
- Toulouse-Lautrec, La Modiste
- Cameron, The Palace
- Sloan, Anshutz on Anatomy
- Bone, The Trevi Fountain, Rome
- Knight, At the Footlights
- McBey, Palestine: Blue Bonnets
Le Grand Canal
Etching and drypoint, 391 x 573 mm., Bliss 274 vii/ix (?), Bibliothèque Nationale 174. Superb impression, literally dripping with burr, on heavy laid paper with full margins, signed in pencil. Early states of this plate show a relatively spare, open landscape with no trees in the foreground. Legros later totally transformed the image into what is seen here, a virtuoso demonstration of drypoint effects, adding to or enhancing the foreground elements and setting them against the lighter background. It is one of Legros’ largest plates and probably his most dramatic and it is difficult to think of a comparable print by any of his contemporaries.
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