Upper Half of a Door (Translation)
Le haut d'un battant de porte (Primary Title)
Félix Bracquemond, French, 1833 - 1914 (Artist)
Signed in plate lower right: "Bracquemond/ inv & fec/ 1852"
Collectors mark of C.W. Dowdeswell (Lugt 690) on verso.
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "B. 110"; lower center: "2em etat 2em epreuve". Inscribed in graphite on verso, lower left: "a21410" (Colnaghi stock number?); lower center: "27509"; lower right: "Ici, tu vois tristement pendre / Oiseaux pillards et convoiteux... / A leurs pariels c'est pour apprendre / Que voler et voler sont deux..." and "No 22".
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
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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