This is a fine original color aquatint etching by French artist Manuel Robbe. The title of this work is: La Coquette. It was created and printed circa 1905. It is hand signed with pen and ink in the lower right border. Printed on a medium weight laid type paper. The image measures 14 1/8X10 3/16 inches. This image appears in the Merrill Chase catalog as image number 22. A fine example of his "belle epoque" style of expression. In a fine Foster Brothers gilt frame.
This is a fine original etching by American artist James Whistler. The subject is: Steet at Saverne, it was created and printed in 1858. This etching was part of the French Set, It is signed lower left,"Whistler", and also has the publishers name and address lower right edge of the sheet., "Imp, Delatre, Rue St. Jacques". This image was created in 4 states, this one is 3/4. The image measures 8 1/8X6 3/16 inches. Printed on an antique laid type paper
This dramatic scene by Arthur Brisco measures 8 x 11 3/4 inches and is ink signed and numbered. Published in 1924 on laid paper, cat: Hurst-94, framed. Briscoe was one of the finest marine artists' of the 20th. century. He studied at the Slade Art School and the Academy Julian in Paris and then spent the rest of his time sailing. He owned his own three ton cutter which he used to sail around the Essex coast. Also crewing on a Polish ship, he sketched every aspect of life on the boat. Most of Briscoe's etchings show sailing ships and the men who sailed them. His beautifully etched images present an invaluable historical record of the workings of the last great commercial vessels.
THis is a fine color aquatint etching by French artist Louis Icart. The title is: La robe de chine,( The Silk Robe) created and printed in 1926, published by Les Graveurs Modernes, 194 rue de Rivoli, Paris. The image measures 15X18 1/4 inches. Hand signed in pencil lower right also with the windmill blindstamp and copyright information in the upper left corner. Very rich color remains, nice condition..This image appears in the Holland catalog as number 276.
This is a fine early printing of the well known etching, Bibi Valentin by American artist James M Whistler. This etching created in 1859 is impression II/II before the plate was damaged. It came to us with the original Kappel label on the back. A fine rich impression printed on a thin laid japan type paper. Signed and dated within the plate. Glascow 34.
TISSOT, JAMES JACQUES JOSEPH (1836 - 1902) "Le Portique de la Galerie Nationale a Londres" (The Portico of the National Gallery, London) This is an original etching with drypoint published in an edition of 100 in 1878. The image measures 14 7/8X8 1/4 inches. Signed within the plate lower right. "This etching is related to the painting London Visitors exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1874, no. 116. The setting is the portico of the National Gallery, looking toward the Church of St. Martin’s-in-the-Fields. Such works give Tissot a minor but distinguished position as a predecessor of the school of architectural etchers founded on the style of Whistler’s Thames and Venice etchings. This etching was exhibited at the Grosveror Gallery, 1879." This etching is nicely framed with archival materials.
This is a very fine original hand colored aquatint etching by French artist Manuel Robbe. The title is: La Tasse De The', it was created and printed in 1906 in an edition of 100. The image measures 19 1/4X 14 3/4 inches. Printed on a medium weight laid type paper, "Arches" watermark. Very fine condition, hand signed in pencil in the lower right in the image.
This etching by Arthur Briscoe measures 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches. Ink signed and numbered on cream laid paper, 1924. Cat: Hurst-85. Framed. Briscoe is known as one of the finest marine etcher of the 20th. century. He owned his own three ton cutter which he used to sail around the Essex coast. Also crewing on a Polish ship, he sketched every aspect of life on the boat. He studied at the Slade Art School and the Academy Julian in Paris.
This is a very rare first state etching by American artist Frank Benson. The subject is a portrait of the American violinist and composer Charles Martin Loeffler. It was created and printed in 1919, with this being one of 6 first state impressions, printed on a laid Van Gelder paper. The image measures 9 7/8X8 inches, hand signed in pencil, and inscribed first state. Very fine condition printed in a brown toned ink. This image appears in the Ordeman catalog as image number 156. The later published edition numbered only 20 impressions.
This fine color etching and aquatint is by French artist Manuel Robbe. The title is: Les Bibelots. It is hand signed in pencil lower left within the image. Very rich impression, the image measures 19 5/8X13 3/8 inches. Printed on a medium weight laid type paper with the "arches" watermark. Numbered as 46 from the edition of 100.
This is an original mezzotint by British artist Sir Frank Short. The title is: "Moonrise on the Bure" This mezzotint was printed in 1922, the image measures 11X15 7/8 inches, printed on a medium weight wove type paper, pencil signed lower right and monogrammed in the plate lower left corner. A beautiful rich impression, very subtle tonal range throughout. Beautiful condition.
A fine example of the Drypoint work of French artist Jacques VIllon. The title of this work is :"L'Epingle A Chapeau", the hat pin. This image was created and printed in 1909. The image is editioned lower left as 12/20. A rare image. The drypoint measures 15X12 inches, printed on a medium weight, watermarked, laid type paper. very fine condition, a rich impression showing a velvet burr of ink throughout the figure.
This drypoint is clearly signed in pencil by the artist lower right border.
This is the famous self portrait by the Belgian printmaker, Jules de Bruycker. The setting is within his studio with a view of Ghent behind. The artist at work, this image was created and printed in 1925 in an edition of 125. The image measures 15 1/4X11 1/4 inches, printed on a wove type sheet which measures 22 1/2X15 1/2 inches. Hand signed, inscribed and dated in pencil in the lower margin.
This is one of the best known works by French artist Jean Francois Millet, Le Départ pour le travail, Leaving for Work, created and printed in 1863. The image printed on laid paper measures 15 1/4X12 1/8 inches. This etching is signed, "J.F. Millet" lower left image. This image is in the Delteil catalog as image number 19 ii/vii...the second state of 7. The image is in good condition, there is old tape residue on the left border, not into the image. Unobtrusive. A fine impression, matted and framed with archival materials.
A fine color aquatint etching by French artist Manuel Robbe. The title Naiade, was taken as The Water Nymph, after a painting by Henner. This image was created and printed in 1912. It was published by Georges Petit in Paris in an edition of 200. The image which is pencil signed measures 14 7/8X23 3/8 inches. The publishers copyright information in the upper left corner just above the image. "Manuel Robbe (1872-1936) was a brilliant printmaker who masted the aquatint technique. He was born in Paris, shortly after the Franco-Prussian War. He soon began studies at the Lycees Condorcet with Louis Legrand. In the early 1890’s Robbe enrolled at the Academie Julian and later, at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux- Arts. Here, he learned the intricacies of etching and aquatint from master etcher Eugene Delatre. He exhibited regularly at the Salons of Societe des Artistes Francais and in 1900, he received a bronze medal at the World’s Fair for his contribution to printmaking."
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