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
Brumes du Matin (Mists of Morning)
Etching with black chalk, grey wash and white gouache, 1882, 250 x 345 mm. Béraldi 779 i/xi, B. N. Inv. 395 i/vi. Fine impression on laid paper with good margins, extensively reworked in chalk, wash and gouache to indicate changes for later states of the plate, signed in brown ink and with the annotation "Dessin sur une epreuve du !er état." The paper is time toned to an even light brown over the full image, which accentuates the white highlights. In addition to its being an important document of Bracquemond's working procedures, the sheet, literally half print, half drawing, is an exceptionally beautiful object, the precision and detail of the etching complemented by the freedom of the drawn areas and the white heightening.