Ducking Impressionism
Prints And Drawings Of Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914)
Including Some Early Rarities
Prints And Drawings Of Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914)
Including Some Early Rarities
- Fables de La Fontaine
- Croquis de Jacques Guichard
- Perdrix
- Le Retour au Logis
- Rue Vivienne la Nuit
- L'Âne
- Les Trétaux
- Virginie de Leyva
- L' Inconnu
- Vanneaux et Sarcelles
- Philomela
- La Mort de Matamore
- Monument Funèbre
- Le Bateau du Teinturier
- Les Saules des Mottiaux
- Le Service du Vin
- Iles du Rhin
- L'Eclipse
- Dernière Réflexion
- Il Pleut à Verse!
- Boissy d’Anglas
- Studies of an Actor
- Le Vieux Coq
- Canards Supris
- Canards Supris
- Brumes du Matin
- Brumes du Matin
- Brumes du Matin
- Labor ou Le Paysan à la Houe
- Ébats de Canards
- Jacques Bosch, Guitarist
- La Rixe (The Brawl)
- Les Graveurs du XIXe Siécle
- Le Lion Amoureux
- L'Homme Qui Court
- L'Homme Qui Court
- La Teste et la Qüeue
- Le Nouveau Né
- Entrée des Croisés
- Entrée des Croisés
- Cinq Eaux-Fortes
- Les Faisans
Canards Supris (Surprised Ducks)
Etching, engraving and drypoint, 1882, 375 x 270 mm., Béraldi 778 undescribed state, B. N. Inv. 394 x/xi.
Fine impression from the edition of 100 published by Frederick Keppel, ca. 1900, with the etched initial at the lower left, on thin, wove paper with good margins, signed in pencil. The first edtion was published in 1887, but Keppel's edition, is not inferior. One might note, in the image, the classically modest pose of the nude bather when confronted by three ducks (i.e. not a human being). It is, as Robert Getscher points out in his catalog of a Bracquemond exhibition drawn from the John Taylor Arms collection, a sign of the artist's anthropomorphism. If one thinks of ducks in terms of human characteristics, one pictures them, and reactions to them, very differently than if one thinks of them as mere staffage.