Accession number
TMP 2023-96.50
Creator
Legrand, Louis, 1863-1951, printmaker.
Published
[Paris], [1908].
Credit line
Promised gift of Davida Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch.
Notes
Proof of 3rd of 5 states, before plate was cut down and reworked, signed, with remarque, from an edition of 30 (100 impressions total), preceding the print's appearance in the album La petite classe (Paris : Gustave Pellet, 1908).
Signed by Legrand in the plate at lower left.
image contiguous with plate mark.
Signed by Legrand in the plate at lower left.
image contiguous with plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching, aquatint, and drypoint ; image: mm; plate mark: 427 x 288 mm; sheet: 575 x 404 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed in pencil, with the stamp of Gustave Pellet (Lugt 1191); at bottom right: Danseuse attachant son chausson.
Provenance
From the collection of Davida Deutsch.
Summary
A young girl stands in her underclothes, leaning over to tie her ballet slipper; her street shoes on on the floor in front of her and at far left is a corset on a small folding stool; with remarque at upper right of a picture of a seated nude woman, surmounted by a snake.
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