7. Auguste Lepère
(1849-1918)

Station d’Omnibus à Vaugirard (Bus Station at Vaugirard)

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Lepère, Station d’Omnibus

Station d’Omnibus à Vaugirard (Bus Station at Vaugirard)

Etching on zinc, 1894, Lotz-Brissonneau 89 only state, 121 x 224 mm. Fine impression on thick laid paper with good margins, signed in pencil from the edition of 30 and with the Sagot blind stamp. Vaugirard, at the time a hamlet, first of gardens for markets and then of auctions and slaughterhouses (both cattle and horses), is in the 15th arrondissement of Paris. The slaughterhouse area was destroyed in 1974 and turned into a park (Parc Georges Brassens). Lepère’s brilliantly drawn etching shows near-frantic activity on the village street with only the waiting omnibus, and one pedestrian, seemingly at rest. The liveliness of movement of the quickly-drawn figures reminds one of the work of Jacques Callot.

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