Le Haut d'un battant de porte (Birds Nailed to a Barn Door), 1852 (this edition 1865)

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 27.8 × 38.2 cm (10 15/16 × 15 1/16 in.)
plate: 30.1 × 39.8 cm (11 7/8 × 15 11/16 in.)

sheet: 39.9 × 46.5 cm (15 11/16 × 18 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased as the gift of Virginia Grace Tuttle and Patricia H. Passer in Memory of Tom Hancock

Catalogue Raisonné

Beraldi, no. 110, State v/v

Accession Number

2009.30.1

Artists / Makers

Félix Bracquemond (artist) French, 1833 - 1914

Eugène Delâtre (printer) French, 1864 - 1938

Image Use

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Inscription

recto: in plate, in image, at lower right: FBracquemond / del & fec / 1865; lower center in image, on tablet: Ici, tu vois tristement pendre / Oiseaux pillards et convoiteux... / A leurs pareils c'est pour apprendre / Que voler and voler sont deux.; in plate, below image, at left: Bracquemond sculp.; in plate, above image, at right: 177.; in plate, below image, at center: LE HAUT D'UN BATTANT DE PORTE. / Paris, Publié par CADART & LUQUET, Editeurs, 79. Rue Richelieu; in plate, below image, at right: Imp. Delâtre, Rue St. Jacques, 303, Paris; verso: none

Marks and Labels

blindstamp of Cadart et Luquet (Lugt 424)

Provenance

(Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts, Stanford, CA); purchased 2008 by NGA.

Associated Names

Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts

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, no. 110, v/v

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