LOT DETAILS

Materials:

etching, on laid paper

Size Notes:

p; s: 319 x 385 mm

Markings:

with an unidentified watermark

Condition:

fine impression of this very rare print, before the second state (of five), trimmed on or just within the platemark above and below, with narrow to small margins at left and right, very pale staining, three short repaired tears at the sheet edges, one just into the subject above, otherwise in good condition

Literature:

Baudicour 6; Wollin 22. V. Carlson & J. Ittmann, Regency to Empire - French Printmaking 1715-1814 , The Baltimore Museum of Fine Art & Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984, no. 80 (an impression of an intermediate state illustrated). P. Stein, Artists and Amateurs, Etching in 18 th -century France , The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2013, no. 52 (a second/third state impression illustrated)

Provenance:

With Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris (by repute). Private collection, Sweden, probably acquired from the above in the 1920's; then by descent to the present owner