4. Félix Bracquemond
(1833-1914)

Le Retour au Logis and La Pépie (The Return Home and The Pip)

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Le Retour au Logis

Le Retour au Logis and La Pépie (The Return Home and The Pip)

Two etchings printed together on one sheet, ca. 1855, 83 x 95 mm. and 88 x 51 mm., Béraldi 138 and 139, B. N. Inv. 59 and 60, Bouillon Ac 16 iii/iii and Ac 17 ii/ii. Fine impressions on yellowish chine appliquéd to white wove paper with full margins, as published by L'Artiste in 1859; the support sheet is slightly dusty but does not affect the images. The activities of fowls, particularly ducks, were of obvious fascination to Bracquemond, and he frequently placed such activities in beautifully drawn tiny landscapes, as in Le Retour. Pip, a word more used colloquially to express irritation, was originally a disease of fowls that caused them to drink water insatiably (in order to relieve burning from a scale on the tongue).

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