Edmond de Goncourt (Primary Title)

Félix Bracquemond, French, 1833 - 1914 (Artist)

1882
French
Prints
Works On Paper
etching and engraving on paper
Place Made,France
Sheet: 22 × 16 in. (55.88 × 40.64 cm)
Plate: 18 3/16 × 12 9/16 in. (46.2 × 31.91 cm)
Mat: 30 × 24 in. (76.2 × 60.96 cm)
2013.322
Not on view
This penetrating and artful portrait depicts one of 19th- century France’s most celebrated writers and connoisseurs. Like Bracquemond, Edmond de Goncourt appreciated Japanese art. However, here the accessories in the rococo style confirm Goncourt’s standing as one of the great amateurs of 18th-century French art.  
Signed in ink lower right: "à mon ami A Lemerre/ Bracquemond."
Gift of Frank Raysor
FÉLIX BRACQUEMOND: Impressionist Innovator, February 13 to October 4, 2015.


A Celebration of Print: 500 Years of Graphic Art from the Frank Raysor Collection
VMFA, 29 January - 22 May 2011;
Catalogue raisonné: Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siècle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes (Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892): vol. III, pp. 1-171, supplement.
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