1880s Nude Prints

Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Aristophane II, Medium: Etching on BFK Rives, specious signature in pencil, Image Size: 6.5 x 4.5 inches, Size: 11 x 9 in. (27.94 x 22.86 cm), ...

A superb, richly-inked impression of this drypoint.

Church of Milan is an Original Etching realized by Mosé Bianchi in 1880. The artwork is in good condition included a white cardboard passpartout (51x35 c...

The sensuality is an original etching on wove paper, realized by Franz Von Stuck in 1889. Original title Die Sinnlichkeit . Hand-signed by the artist....

Die Sinnlichkeit is an original etching on wove paper, realized by Franz Von Stuck in 1889, hand-signed. In very good conditions. The artwork repres...

Image dimensions: 23 x 15.8 cm. La Vendange is a black and white etching, drypoint and aquatint on laid paper, realized between the end of XIX century and...

Mori me cogis is an amusing black and white etching realized around 1880's by Joseph Apoux (1846-1910). Signed on plate "Apoux" on the lower right corner, the title is inscribed on plate on left margin at the center "Mori me Cogis", and on the lower left margin is inscribed on plate the publishing house "René Pincebourde edit.". A woman winking, is part of a big key...

Artist: Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833-1914) Title: "Canards Surpris (Surprised Ducks)" *Signed by Bracquemond in pencil lower right. It is also initial signed in ink lower left Year: 1882 Medium: Original Drypoint Etching on cream Japanese paper Limited edition: 100 Printer: Imprimerie Lemercier, Paris, France Publisher: likely the artist Bracquemond himself, Paris, France Reference: "Les graveurs du XIXe siècle: Guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes", Vol. XII, Paris, 1885–1892 - Henri Béraldi: cat. No. 778; "Inventaire du Fonds Francais Apres 1800" - Jean Adhémar, Jacques Lethève: cat. No. 394, page 383; Laran No. 394 Framing: Recently framed in a gold Baroque moulding and rag matting from Holland Framed size: 23.75" x 19.75" Sheet size: 15.25" x 11.5" Image size: 14" x 10.5" Condition: In excellent condition Notes: "B" inscribed by Bracquemond in ink lower left. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY. Biography: Félix Bracquemond was born in Paris. He was trained in early youth as a trade lithographer, until Guichard, a pupil of Ingres, took him to his studio. His portrait of his grandmother, painted by him at the age of nineteen, attracted Théophile Gautier's attention at the Salon. He applied himself to engraving and etching about 1853, and played a leading and brilliant part in the revival of the etcher's art in France. Altogether he produced over eight hundred plates, comprising portraits, landscapes, scenes of contemporary life, and bird-studies, besides numerous interpretations of other artist's paintings, especially those of Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier, Gustave Moreau and Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot. After having been attached to the Sèvres porcelain factory in 1870, he accepted a post as art manager of the Paris atelier of the firm of Haviland of Limoges. He was connected by a link of firm friendship with Édouard Manet, James McNeill Whistler, and all the other fighters in the impressionist cause, and received all the honors that await the successful artist in France, including the grade of Officer of the Legion of Honor in 1889. Bracquemond was a prominent figure in artistic and literary circles in the second half of the 19th century. He was close to writers such as Edmond de Goncourt and critic Gustave Geffroy, and numbered among his friends Millet and Corot, Henri Fantin-Latour, Degas and the Impressionist circle, and Auguste Rodin. He was one of the more prolific printmakers of his time and he was awarded the grande medaille d'honneur at the Universal Exhibition of 1900. He was also a painter, ceramist, and an innovator in decorative arts. Gabriel Weisberg called him the "molder of artistic taste in his time". Indeed, it was he who recognised the beauty of the Hokusai woodcuts used as packing around a shipment of Japanese china, a discovery which helped change the look of late 19th-century art. He married French Impressionist artist Marie Bracquemond...