The Old Cock

1882

Félix Bracquemond

Associated Names
Félix Bracquemond

Artist, French, 1833 - 1914

Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell

Publisher, closed c. 1917

This is a print of a rooster among tall grass. The print is in brown lines against tan paper. The rooster is facing the right, and we can see its tall comb, its feathery wings and tail, and its scaly feet, which have more feathers around the ankles. The background features the tall grass under a blank sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching printed in brown on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 48.4 × 35.9 cm (19 1/16 × 14 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.1885

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Beraldi, no. 222, State iv/v

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1931

  • Five Centuries of Print Making, The Print Club of Philadelphia, 1931, no. 58.

1933

  • An Exhibition of Prints from the Collection of Lessing J. Rosenwald, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, 1933, no. 173.

1945

  • French Prints of the 19th Century from the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery of Art, Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, Mexico City, 1945, no. 12.

1952

  • Etchings and Other Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA, 1952-1953, no cat.

1953

  • Masterpieces of Graphic Art from the Rosenwald Collection, Lowe Art Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1953, no cat.

1955

  • The Drawing and the Print, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; and Lowe Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1955, no cat.

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.

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, at lower left: Bracquemond 1882; in plate, below image, at center: Published by Messrs. Dowdswell_London_1882; below image, at right, in black chalk: Bracquemond [underlined].

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64955881

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