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36. Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) Le Haut d’un Battant de Porte |
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Le Haut d’un Battant de Porte
Etching and drypoint, 1852-65, 300x 395 mm., Béraldi 110 v/v, Bouillon AC-1 viii/x, B. N. Inv. 27. Fine impression on laid paper with good margins, as published by Cadart & Luquet and with their blind stamp; slight browning in the margins. One of Bracquemond’s most arresting images, this picture of birds and a bat nailed to the top of a wooden door is, as the legend (Here you see, sadly suspended / Birds predatory and lustful / For their equals it is to learn / That flying and plundering are different) clearly states, a moral statement, a “punishment print.” Such pinning of dead creatures to a door (for Bracquemond may well have actually seen such) gave the opportunity for precise study of the natural details, though the placement and artistic arrangement were certainly his.
