The Hare (Le Lièvre)

1865 (1872 edition)

Félix Bracquemond after Albert de Balleroy

Associated Names
Félix Bracquemond

Artist, French, 1833 - 1914

François Liénard

Printer, French, active 1860s-1880s

Albert de Balleroy

Artist After, French, 1828 - 1873

This print shows a hare in an open landscape. The hare is in the center, its ears up and alert, its face turned to the right. The ground around the hare is textured, suggesting grass or brush, with some twigs and tall grass on the right side of the print. In the background, there are gently rendered hills and the dark shapes of other hares running and jumping. The sky is light and clear.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and stipple on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.3 × 24.5 cm (6 7/16 × 9 5/8 in.)
    plate: 17.8 × 25.2 cm (7 × 9 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.2 × 37.8 cm (10 11/16 × 14 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2005.45.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Beraldi, no. 277

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Pia Gallo, New York); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

recto: lower center in plate: Fçois Liénard, Imp. Paris; by later hand, lower center in graphite: Bracquemond; verso, by later hand, lower center, in graphite: L3 17236

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q76339335

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