2. Félix Bracquemond
(1833-1914)
Croquis de Jacques Guichard Enfant Jouant du Violon (Sketch of the Child Jacques Guichard Playing the Violin)

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Croquis de Jacques Guichard

Croquis de Jacques Guichard Enfant Jouant du Violon (Sketch of the Child Jacques Guichard Playing the Violin)

Etching, 1853, 146 x 62 mm., Béraldi 60, B. N. Inv. 34, Bouillon Aa 8 only state. Provenance: New York Public Library duplicate (without stamp). A fine impression of this roughly etched plate, with uneven plate tone, on old laid paper with small margins, signed with an initial in pencil within the image; a piece of the left margin torn out. This rare, early work, apparently done on the back side of the plate of a landscape etching, shows the younger son of the artist Joseph Guichard, who was one of Bracquemond's earliest encouragers and who presciently advised him to take up etching. At the time, Bracquemond did etchings of the father and both sons. Very few impressions were taken of these prints, although Bouillon mentions that there was a re-printing of at least some of the plates around 1912, apparently with an etched monogram added. This impression is signed with a penciled monogram, not an etched one, and is, in any case, an early impression.

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