Paysanne des Environs de Boulogne [Peasant girl from rural Boulogne]: P.14939-R

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1879-05-24) by Legros, Alphonse

Dating

19th Century
1852 CE - ? 1877 CE

Note

Etching and aquatint with light surface tone, printed in brown ink on heavy Japanese paper. Second state (state number is printed on the mount in this case: '2e Etat'). Dodgson records nine states. Signed by the artist in brown ink in the margin at lower right: 'A. Legros'. In Dodgson this is additionally described: 'dite "La Femme Au Panier" ['known as "the woman with the basket" ']. One of 20 prints on mounts printed with numbers and titles and contained inside a portfolio half-bound with green cloth (spine and corners) and grey paper and with printed title: 'Eaux-fortes / par Alphonse Legros.'. Acquisition information at lower centre written in pen and ink (probably by John Charrington): 'Given by Prof. A. Legros / 24 May 1879'. The inside of the front board bears the stamp of the London-based mounter and frame-maker, Robert Guéraut who published Legros' etchings after 1863 and who also collected Legros' prints.

School or Style

French