Jeanne
Leipzig: Zeitschrift für Bildende Kunst, 1904. Etching with aquatint printed in brownish black ink on cream laid paper, 9 3/8 x 7 inches (237 x 176 mm), full margins. In good condition with uniform age tone, several scattered light spots of pin-point-sized foxing, outside of the image area. Lower margin slightly trimmed to exclude the text which would include the name of the artist and publisher. A rich and tonal impression.
"Rassenfosse has often been linked with Felicien Rops as a follower. This is perhaps unfair. One author has said, for example, that while Rops portrayed courtesans, Rassenfosse depicted the daughters of working people. In his intimate nude studies the women have natural elegance, but are not purely objects of desire, as Rops would have made them." [Parisse, Jacques, Actuel XX: la peinture à Liège au XXe siècle. Editions Mardaga, Paris, 1975. ISBN 2802100068].
Item number: 982
Price: $300.00
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