Le Val Clemence; Clémence Valley
Paris: Cadart & Luquet, 1865. Etching and engraving on Chine-collé mounted to watermarked Aqua-Fortistes cream laid paper, 7 x 12 7/8 inches (177 x 327 mm), full margins. Condition issues include minor uniform toning (worse at the sheet edges), handling creases (especially at the sheet edges), and edge wear resulting in several small nics occurring around the sheet perimeter. Printed by Delâtre, Paris. With the Cadart blind stamp in the lower-center margin.
From a volume published by the Société des Aquafortistes containing sixty prints by various artists including Delacroix, Jongkind, Corot, Courbet and Bracquemond. Published in Paris by Cadart et Luquet, 1867. Each image with artist and titles at front, and with the publisher’s blindstamp.
Tancrède Abraham was born on January 7, 1836 in Vitre. He was a student at the Cogniet workshop in Paris, and achieved his first public success with an etching representing the banks of the Oudon in 1863. A member of the Society of Aquafortists from 1862, Abraham collaborated with L'Illustration nouvelle and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, where he published multiple works.
Item number: 962
Price: $350.00
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