Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Avant la leçon [print].

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.
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.
Classification
Department