Accession number
TMP 2023-96.49
Creator
Legrand, Louis, 1863-1951, printmaker.
Published
[Paris], [1895].
Credit line
Promised gift of Davida Deutsch in memory of Alvin Deutsch.
Notes
Proof of 1st of 5 states, before plate was cut down and reworked.
Image contiguous with plate mark.
Image contiguous with plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching, aquatint, and drypoint, with light handcoloring ; plate mark: 320 x 500 mm; sheet: 442 x 612 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the artist in pencil, numbered 2/3, and annotated "1er état" in lower right; inscribed in pencil at foot of sheet: retouché en couleurs par Legrand; with the red monogram stamp of Gustave Pellet; lightly touched with blue and white pastel.
Provenance
From the collection of Davida Deutsch.
Summary
Print shows the head and shoulders of a man and a woman are locked in an embrace in the foreground and kissing beneath a fig tree which stands at right.
Classification
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