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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16. Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) Le Service du Vin (Jean des Entommeures) |
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Le Service du Vin (Jean des Entommeures)
Watercolor and gouache over pencil and pen and ink, 1868, 220 x 352 mm.
This brilliant, complex and fascinating painting, with its inscribed title, remains essentially enigmatic until one discovers that it is an illustration for Rabelais, the preliminary drawing (painting?), in reverse, for the etching illustrating the chapter entitled "comment un moine de Seuillé saulua le cloz de l'abbaye du sac des ennemys" (how a monk of Seullé saved the vineyard of the abbey from the plunder of enemies). That much offers basic clarification and reading the chapter supplies the rest. The etching, which is smaller and simpler than its precursor, is one of sixteen etchings Bracquemond made to illustrate the works of Rabelais. The drawing is on grayish laid paper backed with thin card, signed in ink within the image, and the outer borders of the paper filled with Bracquemond's scribbles and color tests. It is a fabulous object in every respect.
