16. Louis-Philibert Debucourt (1755-1832)
after Carle Vernet

La Course, No. 3

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Debucourt, La Course, No. 3

La Course, No. 3

Aquatint, etching and drypoint (?) printed in colors with possible additional hand coloring, ca. 1817, 375 x 520 mm., Fenaille 156 iii/iv. An effective impression with the foreground and all the figures printing clearly, the distant background and sky rather watery and vague, on laid paper with good margins outside the platemark, backed with thin japan. Tears and thin spots at the left edge of the sheet have been meticulously mended before backing and are virtually invisible. Fenaille describes the work as printed in black only. However, his third state, to which this impression corresponds, is of a second edition and the colors here (tones of brown and grey-blue with a touch of red) appear to have been printed. No registration marks are visible so the colors must have been added à la poupée, a difficult procedure that probably accounts for the summary treatment of the background. Debucourt did another plate, Fin de la Course, No. 4 which, together with two plates by Gros after Vernet, makes up a set of four and explains the numbers in the titles. These numbers are absent in the second edition

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