Paysage de Tourbières; dans les Marais

Catalogue number: SO 0057
Artist: Alphonse Legros
Date: 1878
Medium: Etching and drypoint
Dimensions [to plate mark]: 130 x 63 mm
Catalogues: Poulet-Malassis & Thibaudeau 220, Bliss 220
State: II/IV

Subject

A small study of two men working in flooded peat cuttings: the title translates as ‘Peatland landscape; in the marshes’.

Printing

Identified as the second state by a pencil inscription on the sheet. Bliss notes that only three impressions of the second state were taken, but further research would be required to substantiate this claim of scarcity.

History

Purchased online at auction from Antiquariat Peter Kiefer, Buch - und Kunstauktionen, Pforzheim, Germany on 4 December 2024