The Moles (Translation)
Les taupes (Primary Title)

Félix Bracquemond, French, 1833 - 1914 (Artist)

1854
French
Works On Paper
Prints
etching on laid paper
Place Made,France
Sheet: 17 7/16 × 11 7/8 in. (44.3 × 30.2 cm)
Plate: 10 5/8 × 7 13/16 in. (27 × 19.8 cm)
Image: 9 7/8 × 7 5/8 in. (25.1 × 19.4 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.64 cm)
2013.351
Not on view
Signed in plate upper right: "Bracquemond/ inv & fec"
Blindstamp of Cadart & Luquet (Lugt 424) in lower margin.
Printed within image, upper right: "231."; lower left: "Aux ramilles du peuplier/ Danse la Taupe suspendue,/ Et vers la ferme le Taupier/ Va reclamer la somme due." Printed beneath image, lower left: "Bracquemond sculp."; lower right: "Imp. Delâtre, Rue St. Jacques, 303, Paris"; lower center: "LES TAUPES./ Paris, Publié par CADART & LUQUET, Editeurs, 79, Rue Richelieu." Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "B. 134"; lower right: "Bracquemond/ Eaux forte originale". Inscribed in graphite on verso, lower left: "RPG 6207 8LWX2"; lower right: "#2117"
Gift of Frank Raysor
FÉLIX BRACQUEMOND: Impressionist Innovator, February 13 to October 4, 2015.
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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