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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11. Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) Frontispice pour "Philomela," Livre Lyrique par Catulle Mendès (Frontispiece for "Philomela,"a Book of Poetry by Catulle Mendès) |
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Frontispice pour "Philomela," Livre Lyrique par Catulle Mendès (Frontispiece for "Philomela,"a Book of Poetry by Catulle Mendès)
Etching, 1863, 112 x 84 mm., Béraldi 430, B. N. Inv. 173. Provenance: Samuel Isham (Lugt 1402); New York Public Library (duplicate).
Fine impression of this obscure print on heavy wove paper with good margins, apparently taken from a copy of the book, signed (?) or inscribed in pencil; pale staining at the right edge (from the book mounting).
Mendès (1841-1909) was a founder of the Parnassian school of poetry and, at the age of eighteen, founder of the Revue Fantaisiste, which published many of Bresdin's prints. He was a major literary figure in Paris. Bracquemond's little frontispiece is no throwaway effort but, despite its odd subject matter (a single singing bird in a vast landscape under a starry sky), a carefully worked-out and meticulously etched composition.
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