Les Marchandes d’Œufs (second plate) a.k.a. Marchandes des environs de Boulogne

Catalogue number: SO 0074
Artist: Alphonse Legros
Date: 1880
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 124 x 160 mm
Catalogues: Bliss 279
State: III/III

Subject

Signed in pencil outside the plate lower right. Annotated in pencil: ‘279 III, Marchandes des environs de Boulogne, (15 proofs) (from the artist’s private coll.) Collectors stamp ‘BLISS’ in ellipse, in red ink. extreme bottom right.

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.