Le Bout Genet, Crevecoeur-le-Grand

 

Auguste Louis Lepere

  1849 - 1918 (biography)

1913  

etching 

9 9/16 x 7 13/16" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

3/8, from the first state, before the published edition of 50 

pencil edtitioned 3/8 and annotated "1st St" 

Texier-Bernier 409 i/ii 

antique-white Japon paper 

published 

Edmond Sagot (blindstamp, lower right, margin (Lugt 2254) 

18681 

$900.00 

This impression is from the rare first state of 8 impressions, before additional work in the sky and the shading. It is pencil numbered "3/8" and annotated "1st St" (first state). It has the Sagot chop in the margin and is titled in pencil in the lower left margin in an unknown hand. Crevecoeur-le-Grand is a town in Oise, the Picardy Region of northern France.