Les Vieux (The Elders)
Paris: Lemerre, 1880. Etching, drypoint, aquatint (dust ground and spirit ground), spit bite, and roulette in black on cream laid paper with a deckle edge, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches (170 x 112 mm), full margins. Fourth state (of 5). An illustration from Alphonse Daudet's, Lettres de mon moulin, Paris, 1880. In very good condition with some light uniform toning and two areas of paper tape at the top right and left corners on the verso (from a former mount). With the 1921 J.H. de Bois circular ink stamp in green ink in the lower right margin on the recto (Lugt L.733).
[Bourcard 113].
A note regarding the provenance:
J. H. de Bois was a well known late-19th century modern art dealer, established in Haarlem. De Bois was born in Amsterdam in 1878, and began his art dealing career in 1902 with the Van Wisselingh firm. Shortly thereafter he joined the gallery of C.M. van Gogh, the uncle of the artist, and four years later became director of The Hague branch of that gallery. When The Hague branch closed in 1911, de Bois joined with the dealer Artz to form Artz & de Bois. Two years later he opened his own gallery in Haarlem. His distictive green mark appears on each of the exceptional prints which passed through his hands.
Item number: 1344
Price: $650.00
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