18. Jean-François Raffaëlli
(1850-1924)

L'Actrice en Scène

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Raffaëlli, L'Actrice en Scène

L'Actrice en Scène

Drypoint, in colors, 1898, 327 x 251 mm., Delteil 51 ii/ii, edition 60. Provenance: H7R9K (blind stamp, not in Lugt). Fine impression in brown, green, yellow, pink and black on imperial japan paper with good (full?) margins, signed in pencil and numbered 1 from the edition of sixty. The work is illustrated in From Pissarro to Picasso. Raffaëlli was among the earlier Impressionist experimenters with color etching, trying both multiple-plate and à la poupée methods, but not satisfying himself with the results until about 1894. Here, as in many of the line works printed in color, there is a certain new equilibrium established between line and color, as if to posit a monochrome print with touches of color rather than a color image.