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| Title:: |
The Basket Seller |
Year:: |
1805 |
| Artist: |
Plonski, Michal |
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| Medium: |
etching |
Provenance: |
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| Period: |
Polish 19th Century |
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| Catalogs: |
LeBlanc 21 i/ii;
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Height(mm):
Width(mm):
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292
229
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| Price: |
$1,400.00 |
| Description: |
Probably Plonski's major etched work, The Basket Seller consists of a central image surrounded by 10 other independent subjects, head studies, a landscape, and genre scenes, of varying shapes and dimensions, forming a frame around the center. LeBlanc's first state is of the full plate; his second state is of the central subject only, presumably from a cut down plate. In this impression, the borders, together with narrow margins outside the platemark, have been reconstructed from indvidually trimmed subjects and the pieces hinged down to a support sheet; there are no missing areas though the pieces have not been reattached to one another. Fine impression on laid paper, a margin showing all around. The central image shows a laden basket seller, full length, on a hill outside a town. A balloon is aloft over the town. Marginal subjects incude a dog cart, a Dutch landscape, various head studies and peasant scenes. |
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