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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9. Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) L' Inconnu (The Unknown) |
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L' Inconnu (The Unknown)
Etching and drypoint, 1862, 187 x 320 mm., Béraldi 174 iii/iii, B. N. Inv. 158. Fine, fresh impression on chine-appliqué with large margins; some dust and a little foxing at the outer edges of the support sheet. The etching was published as the first plate in the first album issued by the Societé des Aquafortistes and bears the number 1 at the upper right corner. This first published state, as printed by Delâtre, is a perfectly fine realization of the etching as there were only about a dozen proof impressions taken of the prior two states. Curiosity is not a trait usually associated with ducks, but if anyone would have observed (not to say, memorialized) such a scene, it would have been Bracquemond.
