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
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3. Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) Perdrix (Partridges) |
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Perdrix (Partridges)
Etching, 1853, 272 x 328 mm., Béraldi 112 iii/iv, B. N. Inv. 38 iii/v, Bouillon Ac 3 iii/iv.
Fine impression in brown-black ink on chine-appliqué with good margins; some light foxing in the margins. This was one of Bracquemond's first plates to exhibit the theme that essentially made the artist's reputation: a group of birds in a landscape. The landscape is quite austere here and the focus is on the varied poses of the birds -- on the ground, in flight and in between - a study of attitudes and movement that shows careful observation and would not be out of place in an ornithological essay. Both Béraldi and Bouillon lack mention of the fifth state, recorded by the B. N., the Keppel edition, identified by an etched initial at the bottom left of the plate. This impression, however, is of an early printing.
