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16. Henri Patrice Dillon (1851-1909) Les Mendiants (The Beggars)
Lithograph with hand coloring, 1904, 293 x 403 mm., Bibliothèque Nationale Inventaire
VI p. 593. Superb impression on thick wove paper, hand colored by the artist, trimmed to the image and signed and numbered 1/10 in pencil within the image; a short repaired tear at the left edge, invisible from the front. This is a very rare print. The Bibliothèque Nationale mentions it in their catalog but notes that it is lacking in their collection, and we have seen no impression of it at auction. Dillon was a French painter and lithographer, born in San Francisco – actually, in the French consulate in San Francisco, where his father was the French consul. The subject here is a meeting of beggars on a hill outside a French town and their varied disabilities, physical and psychological, are graphically portrayed. The scene is set near what seems to be the wreck of an old auto and the subtle hand coloring adds to the effect. The edition was of ten impressions and this may be the only hand-colored one.
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