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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34. Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) after Gustave Moreau (1826-1898) Le Lion Amoureux (The Amorous Lion) from the Fables of La Fontaine |
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Le Lion Amoureux (The Amorous Lion) from the Fables of La Fontaine
Etching with pen and brown ink additions, 1886, 345 x 260 mm., Béraldi 794 iii-vii/viii, B. N. Inv. 421.
Gustave Moreau was a fascinating and highly individual artist who left the majority of his paintings, watercolors and drawings to the French state (they are housed in the Musée Gustave Moreau) and never made a print. Bracquemond, with his unequaled ability to translate the work of other artists into etching, made a set of six etchings of Moreau compositions for the Fables of La Fontaine, and they are superb. The states of these prints have never been fully described in the literature. This impression is a working proof, with the etched indication "In progress for the propriétors MM Boussod & Valadon, Paris," somewhere between the second state and the eighth (published state). It has, in addition, been touched with pen and ink by Bracquemond to indicate further changes in the plate. Superb impression on imperial japon paper with full margins; slight dirt at two corners of the sheet far from the platemark. A unique object.
