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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38. Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) after Jean- Francois Millet (1814-1875) Le Nouveau Né (The New-Born) |
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Le Nouveau Né (The New-Born)
Etching, 1886, ca. 480 x 340 mm, Béraldi 786 vi or vii/vii, B. N. Inv. 427. Fine impression, with a good range of tone and the remarque below, on vellum with large margins, signed in pencil; some pale discoloration and spotting in the margins and two short tears in the lower margin far from the image. Because of the nature of vellum, the platemark is difficult to discern and the given size is an approximation.
The work is not a copy of a Millet etching but, according to Béraldi, a translation of a Millet drawing, commissioned by the print publisher Georges Petit. Petit's address, in a very modest size type, is printed just above the image, but there is no other text and it is therefore presently undetermined whether the etching is in the sixth state or the seventh. The image is sentimental for Millet but very attractive and Bracquemond has clearly submerged his own artistic personality in the effort to be true to Millet's.
