The Moles (Les Taupes), 1854

Not on View

Medium

etching with stipple on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 27.2 × 20 cm (10 11/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

sheet: 38.4 × 28.6 cm (15 1/8 × 11 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi, no. 134, State iii/iv

Accession Number

1975.33.1

Artists / Makers

Félix Bracquemond (artist) French, 1833 - 1914

Pierron, French, active 1849-1866 (printer)

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, in image, at upper right: Bracquemond [underlined] / inv & fec; in plate, in image, at lower left on stone: 1854 [underlined] / Aux ramilles du peuplier / Danse la taupe suspendue, / Et vers la ferme de Taupier / Va réclamer la somme due.; in plate, below image, at right: Imp Pierron rue de Montfaucon No. 1; at upper right, in graphite, in later hand: B.134 / III; at lower left, in graphite, in later hand: H. B. 134 - Les Taupes, 3me état; verso: at bottom right, in graphite, in later hand: 18125 / [indecipherable]

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Galerie Documents, Paris)

Associated Names

Galerie Documents

Exhibition History

2009: The Darker Side of Light: Arts of Privacy, 1850-1900, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; NGA; Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, 2009 - 2010

Bibliography

1885: Beraldi, Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris, 1885-1892: Henri. Les graveurs du XIXe siecle, guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes. 12 vols. Paris: Librairie L. Conquet, 1885-1892.

1987: Bouillon, Jean-Paul. Félix Bracquemond, Le Réalisme Absolu: oeuvre gravé 1849-1859, catalogue raisonné, Geneva: Skira, 1987.