Antoinette Destaille

Elegante Eventail

1900

Drypoint etching on buff wove paper, 9 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (240 x 271 mm) full margins. Signed in the image, lower left. With the "Musée Louvre Chalcographie" blind stamp in the lowe...

Etching and drypoint on chine collé laid down to cream wove paper, 12 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches (318 x 217 mm), full margins. Signed, titled, and numbered 68/100 in pencil, lower margin. Th...

Paris: 1861 Etching, drypoint, and engraving on cream laid paper, 6 x 4 1/4 inches (152 x 108 mm), full margins. Dog-eared left corner, extending 3-inches into the sheet, but well ou...

Etching with engraving and drypoint printed in brownish black ink on cream laid paper with a partial heraldic A and fleur-de-lis watermark, 5 5/8 x 4 1/4 inches ( 341 x 107 mm), full...

Published in Paris by Chalcographie Louvre around 1910. Drypoint etching on buff wove paper, 7 x 11 inches (175 x 278 mm) full margins. With the "Musée Louvre Chalcographie" blind st...

Copper plate etching with drypoint on cream laid paper with a partial heraldic watermark, 11 x 8 inches (280 x 204 mm), full margins. Toning and some discoloration along the left mar...

Plate XII, Le Cocu Magnifique From: Le Cocu Magnifique Etching & aquatint, 1968 From the unsigned edition of 200 impressions printed on Rives BFK paper (see photo) Signed in pencil o...

L'Enfant Et Le Maître Décole (The Child and the School Teacher Etching with hand coloring by Chagall, 1927-1930 Signed in the plate lower right (see photo) From La Fontaine Les Fable...

Ballerine (Ballerina) Lift ground aquatint over heliogravure, printed in color, 1930 Unsigned (as issued) From: Andre Suares, Cirque (Livre d’Artiste with 8 plates), 1930 Published ...

Son avocat, en phrases creuses, clame sa totale inconscience (His lawyer, in hollow phrases, proclaims his total indiffference) Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922 Unsigned (as issued) From: Miserere (Have Mercy), 58 plates Plate 19 Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure 1922-1927 Edition: 425 on Arches vellum with the Ambrose Vollard watermark 25 Hors commerce portfolios All published impression are unsigned, as issued Signed and numbered only on the colophon Published by Societe d’Editions l’Etoile Filante, Paris, 1948 Printer: Jacquemin, Paris, 1922-1927 Reference: Chapon & Rouault 72 c/c Condition: excellent Image/Plate size: 21 1/16 x 15 7/8 Rouault’s Miserere...

Loin du sourire de Reims (Far from the Smile of Rheims) Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922 Signed with the initials in the plate and dated (see photo) From: Miserere (Have Mercy), 58 plates Plate 51 Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure 1922-1927 Edition: 425 on Arches vellum with the Ambrose Vollard watermark 25 Hors commerce portfolios All published impression are unsigned, as issued Signed and numbered only on the colophon Published by Societe d’Editions l’Etoile Filante, Paris, 1948 Printer: Jacquemin, Paris, 1922-1927 Reference: Chapon & Rouault 104 Wofsy 158 Rouault’s Miserere...

En bouche qui fut fraîche, goût de fiel (In the mouth that was once fresh, the taste of bitterness) Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure, 1922 Unsigned as issued From: Miserere (Have Mercy), 58 plates Plate 15 Aquatint, drypoint, roulette and burnishing over heliogravure 1922-1927 Edition: 425 on Arches vellum with the Ambrose Vollard watermark 25 Hors commerce portfolios All published impression are unsigned, as issued Signed and numbered only on the colophon Published by Societe d’Editions l’Etoile Filante, Paris, 1948 Printer: Jacquemin, Paris, 1922-1927 Condition: Excellent Image/Plate size: 19 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches Reference: Chapon & Rouault 68 d/d Flora and Kang cite Lamentations 3:18-23 as a possible verbal equivalent: "my soul is bereft of peace; I have forgotten what happiness is; so I say, ‘Gone is my glory, and all that I had hoped for from the Lord.’ The thought of my affliction and my homelessness is wormwood and gall! My soul continually thinks of it and is bowed down within me." Rouault’s Miserere...