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34. Charles-André Malardot (1817-1879) La Pêche |
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La Pêche
Etching, 1863, 249 x 177 mm., Béraldi 7, Bellevoye 44, B. N. Inventaire 30. Fine, meticulously detailed impression on chine-appliqué with very large margins, as published by Cadart & Luquet; water stains at the outer edges of the support sheet. Malardot’s name first came to the attention of collectors when this image, though signed in the plate, was mistakenly thought to be a work by Rodolphe Bresdin. An article in Print Collector’s Quarterly set matters straight and introduced a somewhat strange and fascinating artist from the ancient city of Metz in Lorraine. There is a similarity to the work of Bresdin, though the two men were probably unaware of each other, but Malardot’s works do not contain the fantastic elements of many of Bresdin’s. Malardot’s scenes are laid in the woods of the Vosges Mountains and it is the very elements of that scenery, etched in minute detail, that give his works their inherent mystery.
