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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15. Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) Les Saules des Mottiaux (The Willows of Les Mottiaux) |
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Les Saules des Mottiaux (The Willows of Les Mottiaux)
Etching and drypoint, 1868, 205 x 295 mm., Béraldi 190 iii/iii, B. N. Inv. 222.
Brilliant impression on thick laid paper with good margins, signed in ink; a few very pale spots of foxing in the margins. This is one of Bracquemond's infrequent pure landscapes, beautifully observed, drawn and etched in a style not quite like anyone else. The scene may have attracted him because the trees, for the most part, are growing out of standing water, with boats moored to their trunks. A small fishing shack (à la Rembrandt) is half hidden behind the trees.