Les Marchandes d’Œufs (first plate)

Catalogue number: SO 0073
Artist: Alphonse Legros
Date: 1880
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 150 x 200 mm
Catalogues: Bliss 279
State: II/II

Subject

Signed in pencil outside the plate, bottom right. Annotated in pencil at the bottom edge of the sheet, ‘278 ii, marchandes d’œufs, 0071.65 A 18511 _L'

Printing

According to Bliss, there were sixteen impressions of Les Marchandes d'Œufs (first plate), with only two of the first state, one retouched for corrections.

History

Deaccessioned from the permanent collection of Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey, United States circa 2009.

Purchased online at auction in a lot of five etchings by Legros, from Chiswick Auctions, London on 16 September 2025.