Le haut d'un battant de porte (Primary Title)

Félix Bracquemond, French, 1833 - 1914 (Artist)

1852–1865
French
Works On Paper
Prints
etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Place Made,France
Sheet: 14 1/2 × 21 5/8 in. (36.83 × 54.928 cm)
Plate: 11 15/16 × 15 5/8 in. (30.321 × 39.688 cm)
Image: 10 15/16 × 15 in. (27.781 × 38.1 cm)
2013.338
Not on view
Signed in plate lower right: "Bracquemond/ inv & fec/ 1865"
Blindstamp of Cadart & Luquet (Lugt 424) lower center.
Printed within image, lower center: "Ici, tu vois tristement pendre / Oiseaux pillards et convoiteux... / A leurs pareils c'est pour apprendre / Que voler et voler sont deux”. Printed beneath image, lower left: "Bracquemond sculp."; lower center: "LE HAUT D'UN BATTANT DE PORTE./ Paris, Publié par CADART & LUQUET, Editeurs, 79, Rue Richelieu"; lower right: "Imp. Delâtre, Rue St. Jacques, 303, Paris"
Gift of Frank Raysor
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.
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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