32. Jean-François Millet
(1814-1875)

La Planche aux Croquis ou La Tricoteuse (The Sketch Plate or The Knitter)

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Millet, La Planche aux Croquis

La Planche aux Croquis ou La Tricoteuse (The Sketch Plate or The Knitter)

Etching and drypoint, 193 x 119 mm., Delteil 6. A brilliant impression on japan paper with good margins; the impression seems superior to that illustrated in Delteil. Alfred Lebrun indicated an edition of only ten, but the plate was acquired , along with others, by Keppel during Millet's lifetime and he, according to Delteil, had new impressions printed without materially changing the copper matrix.