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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26. Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) Brumes du Matin (Mists of Morning) |
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Brumes du Matin (Mists of Morning)
Etching, 1882, 250 x 350 mm., Béraldi 779 i/xi, B. N. Inv. 395 i/vi. Provenance: Alfred Beurdeley (Lugt 421). Very fine impression of the rare first state in pure etching, printed with light plate tone on imperial japan paper with large margins, signed in ink. Again, Bracquemond's classic subject: birds in a landscape.
But, despite the meticulously drawn herbage, the landscape here is really a weather condition -- of no account to the pheasants but of prime interest to the viewer. The birds in the foreground are clear and distinct; those further back melt into the mist. The distant landscape, in this first state, is all but invisible. Béraldi singled out this printing as a "Bel état."
