Cabane dans le Marais (Cabin in the marsh) by Alphonse Legros

Cabane dans le Marais (Cabin in the marsh) by Alphonse Legros

Cabane dans le Marais (Cabin in the marsh)

Alphonse Legros

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Title

Cabane dans le Marais (Cabin in the marsh)

 
Artist
Year
c. 1880  
Technique
etching with drypoint 
Image Size
5 1/16 x 9 7/16" platemark 
Signature
pencil, lower right 
Edition Size
not stated - Rare 
Annotations
in pencil in lower margin: "514-iii/iii" - title - "Rare - A3165." 
Reference
Sourlier 514 iii/iii; Beraldi 514iii/iii 
Paper
light gray/cream laid paper 
State
iii/iii 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
19616 
Price
$600.00 
Description

This etching was originally sold by Vickery, Atkins & Torrey in San Francisco in the early 20th century. Their accompaning label notes: "Cabane dans les marais / Third State. Signed proofs are very rare."

The label also quotes Elizabeth Luther Cary's comments regarding Legros' images: "When we turn to the plates dedicated to pure landscape, or to landscape in which the figures are of no especial importance, we find not so much a variety of nature's moods as an intimate appreciation of their appeal to human sympathy. They not infrequently express humanity more fully than it is expressed by the artist's representations of men and women. The latter appear as symbols of spriitual force, but the landscapes seem actually to embody it. Throughout patient study of nature has fortified the technical equipment of the artist, and has produced a complete mastery of the desired effect."

 
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