La Ferme de Brieux
- Catalogue number
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SO 0083
- Artist
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Alphonse Legros
- Date
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1885
- Medium
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Etching and drypoint
- Dimensions [to plate mark]
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332 x 180 mm
- Catalogues
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Bliss 484
- State
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III/III
Subject
A downpour breaks over traditional farm buildings in the French countryside. The image is characterised by rhythmic cross-hatching, firmly inked to emphasise the caalligraphic surface.
Signed in pencil outside the plate, bottom right.Inscription in pencil in another hand ‘La ferme de Brieux. c484'
History
Purchased in a lot of eleven unframed etchings by Legros, online from Semley Auctioneers in Shaftsbury, Dorset on 8th November 2025
