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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30. Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) Ébats de Canards (Frolic of Ducks) |
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Ébats de Canards (Frolic of Ducks)
Etching, drypoint, touches of engraving, ca. 1882, 333 x 243 mm., Béraldi 221 iv/iv (?), B. N. Inv. N.D.
Very fine impression on laid paper with huge margins (the sheet is over 700 x 490 mm.), signed in pencil; very pale discoloration in the area of the old mat opening. Béraldi's description of states is not really sufficient to distinguish one from another without comparison of impressions. This appears to be the final state, issued in an edition of 300 (sent to America, remarks Béraldi), and while it could be earlier, we prefer to be conservative about it. The image shows a naturalist approach, rather than the decorative one of Japonisme, and is almost as much a study of water swirls and aquatic plants as it is of the ducks themselves. They are, however, superbly drawn, both male and female, and in a variety of poses.
