Bearing a wry handwritten inscription in the lower margin plate that reads: "un Cochon de propriétaire qui ne fera de bien qu'après sa mort" (A pig of a landlord who will do no good until after his death).

Daubigny, Charles-François

Le Cochon dans un Verger (The Pig in an Orchard)

Paris: 1860. Etching with engraving on Chine collé mounted to a wove paper matrix with a false platemark, 4 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (115 x 165 mm); matrix 12 1/2 x 17 1/2 inches (317 x 445 mm), full margins. A third state (of 3) impression. In good condition with some minor marginal toning and surface soiling.

[Delteil 96].

Known in three states, the early states prior to the publication in the periodical Les Beaux-Arts: Illustration des Arts et de la Littérature are scarcer, while the third state often appears on chine collé or standard laid/wove paper (sometimes with a Louvre Chalcographie blindstamp in later restrikes).

Item number: 2534

Price: $600.00

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