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Frontispiece - Danseuses et cochon [print].

Accession number
TMP 2023-96.60
Creator
Legrand, Louis, 1863-1951, printmaker.
Published
[Paris], [1904].
Credit line
Promised gift of Davida Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch.
Notes
Library's copy is identified in a pencil inscription as "Bon à tirer", and signed and retouched in ink by the artist.
Image contiguous with plate mark.
The Morgan Library & Museum owns a related preliminary design for a binding, drawn and incised on leather by Louis Legrand, and reproducing the two figures on the left side of this composition (see TMP 2023-96.33)
Description
1 print : drypoint ; plate mark: 316 x 228 mm; sheet: 416 x 315 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the artist in pencil; inscribed in pencil at foot of sheet: [Et la?] main retrouvée; and: Bon à tirer [signed with the artist's initials].
Provenance
Victor Arwas; from the collection of Davida Deutsch.
Summary
Print shows a young woman standing and facing left, wearing a skirt and undershirt, her head bowed and her long hair flung forward as she combs it.
Classification
Department