Bords de l'Oudon - Etching by Tancrède Abraham - 1863
By Tancrède Abraham
Located in Roma, IT
In Paris, in 1873, the magazine Paris à l'eau-forte was founded.
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1860s Barbizon School Figurative Prints
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Etching
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L'Ecurueil et la Mouche? - Etching by Jules-Fernand Jacquemartin - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
In Paris, in 1873, the magazine Paris à l'eau-forte was founded.
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1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Maxime LalanneDemolition Pour le Percement du Boulevard St.German by Maxime Lalanne - 1862, 1862
$558
Demolition Pour le Percement du Boulevard St.German by Maxime Lalanne - 1862
By Maxime Lalanne
Located in Roma, IT
In Paris, in 1873, the magazine Paris à l'eau-forte was founded.
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Auguste Feyen PerrinEpisode des Premieres Guerres - Etching by Auguste Feyen Perrin - 1860s, 1860s
$651
Episode des Premieres Guerres - Etching by Auguste Feyen Perrin - 1860s
By Auguste Feyen Perrin
Located in Roma, IT
In Paris, in 1873, the magazine Paris à l'eau-forte was founded.
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1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Sous les Murs de Teheran - Etching by Jules Laurens - 1860s
By Jules Laurens
Located in Roma, IT
In Paris, in 1873, the magazine Paris à l'eau-forte was founded.
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Salvator Rosa et les Brigands - Etching by François Chifflart - 1860s
By François Chifflart
Located in Roma, IT
In Paris, in 1873, the magazine Paris à l'eau-forte was founded.
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1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Le Berger et la Mer - Etching by Albert Brendel - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
In Paris, in 1873, the magazine Paris à l'eau-forte was founded.
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1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Antique Engraving of a Japanese Lady, 1877
$241Sale Price|20% Off
Antique Engraving of a Japanese Lady, 1877
Located in Langweer, NL
This print originates from 'L'Eau Forte en 1877'. Artists and Engravers: Etching by Étienne-Prosper Berne-Bellecour.
Category
Antique 19th Century Prints
Materials
Paper
Marie LaurencinMarie Laurencin, The Round Dance, 1926, 1926
$1,036Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, The Round Dance, 1926
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
Avec quatre gravures a l'eau-forte de Marie Laurencin (Ten Girls in a Meadow.
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1920s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Marie LaurencinMarie Laurencin, Eight Girls in a Meadow, 1926, 1926
$1,036Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, Eight Girls in a Meadow, 1926
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
Avec quatre gravures a l'eau-forte de Marie Laurencin (Ten Girls in a Meadow.
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1920s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Marie LaurencinMarie Laurencin, Three Young Girls Playing with a Bow, 1926, 1926
$1,036Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, Three Young Girls Playing with a Bow, 1926
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
Avec quatre gravures a l'eau-forte de Marie Laurencin (Ten Girls in a Meadow.
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Marie LaurencinMarie Laurencin, Young Girl with the Black Ribbon, 1926, 1926
$1,036Sale Price|20% Off
Marie Laurencin, Young Girl with the Black Ribbon, 1926
By Marie Laurencin
Located in Southampton, NY
Avec quatre gravures a l'eau-forte de Marie Laurencin (Ten Girls in a Meadow.
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
François-Xavier Lalanne - The Goat, 2004 Original print
By François-Xavier Lalanne
Located in Saint-Didier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
François-Xavier Lalanne (1927-2008) La chèvre, 2004 Estampe originale (eau-forte sur papier) signée au crayon par François Xavier Lalanne et non intitulée « La Chèvre », en parfait é...
Category
1970s Animal Prints
Materials
Paper
Un Rocher dans les Communaux de Rix - Etching by Appian - 1860s
By Adolphe APPIAN
Located in Roma, IT
In Paris, in 1873, the magazine Paris à l'eau-forte was founded.
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Alfred CadartLa Societe Des Aqua Fortistes - Frontispiece - Etching by Alfred Cadart - 1860s, 1860s
$465
La Societe Des Aqua Fortistes - Frontispiece - Etching by Alfred Cadart - 1860s
Located in Roma, IT
In Paris, in 1873, the magazine Paris à l'eau-forte was founded.
Category
1860s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Les Gitanos Etching, Impressionist Style, Circa 1862, Unframed
By Édouard Manet
Located in Roma, IT
In Paris, in 1873, the magazine Paris à l'eau-forte was founded.
Category
1860s Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Henry SommFlamenco Dancers - Ink Drawing on Paper by H. Somm - Late 19th Century, Late 19th Century
$523
Flamenco Dancers - Ink Drawing on Paper by H. Somm - Late 19th Century
By Henry Somm
Located in Roma, IT
Between 1873 and 1876 he made many engravings for the magazine Paris à l'eau forte and then at the Cadart printing house.
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Late 18th Century French Print "Temple Herastyle Périptère de Pestum"
$396Sale Price|20% Off
Late 18th Century French Print "Temple Herastyle Périptère de Pestum"
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
No 381, G.G., Gravé à L'eau-forte par Weisbret. Terminé par J. Miamet graveur du Roi.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century French Neoclassical Prints
Materials
Paper
Portraits - Original Ink Drawings on Paper by H. Somm - Late 19th Century
By Henry Somm
Located in Roma, IT
Between 1873 and 1876 he made many engravings for the magazine Paris à l'eau forte and then at the Cadart printing house.
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Snake Tail - Ink Drawing on Paper by H. Somm - Late 19th Century
By Henry Somm
Located in Roma, IT
Between 1873 and 1876 he made many engravings for the magazine Paris à l'eau forte and then at the Cadart printing house.
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Henry SommWoman - Original Ink Drawing on Paper by H. Somm - Late 19th Century, Late 19th Century
$523
Woman - Original Ink Drawing on Paper by H. Somm - Late 19th Century
By Henry Somm
Located in Roma, IT
Between 1873 and 1876 he made many engravings for the magazine Paris à l'eau forte and then at the Cadart printing house.
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
The Magician - Ink Drawing on Paper by H. Somm - Late 19th Century
By Henry Somm
Located in Roma, IT
Between 1873 and 1876 he made many engravings for the magazine Paris à l'eau forte and then at the Cadart printing house.
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
Sortie de Theatre a Londres
By Jean-Emile Laboureur
Located in New York, NY
Published for La Societe des amis de l’eau-forte, with the blindstamp with the inscription: Circle Librairie Estampes.
Category
1910s Naturalistic Figurative Prints
Materials
Drypoint
Jacques CallotThe Little Trellis - Etching by Jacques Callot - Mid-17th Century, Mid-17th Century
$465
The Little Trellis - Etching by Jacques Callot - Mid-17th Century
By Jacques Callot
Located in Roma, IT
Signed in plate lower right: Callot in et fe cum privil Regis Inscribed below image: La dernière planche gravée par defunt Callot, à laquelle l’eau forte n’a esté donnée qu’après sa ...
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1660s Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Cusset (Environs de Vichy) - Etching by Maxime Lalanne - 1864 ca.
By Maxime Lalanne
Located in Roma, IT
His treatise Traité de la gravure à l’eau-forte (1866) became a cornerstone for artists and collectors alike.
Category
1860s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Chacun Son Tour – Humorous Hand-Colored Etching by Boris O’Klein, ca. 1930s
Located in Langweer, NL
Measuring approximately 16 x 43.5 cm (image 13 x 43 cm), the print is signed and titled in pencil by the artist and inscribed in the plate “Copyright by O’Klein, Chamarande (S.&O.)” ...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Prints
Materials
Paper
20th Century French Signed Belle Epoque Lithograph
By Jean-Louis Boussingault
Located in Roma, IT
Il a pratiqué la pointe sèche, l'eau-forte et la lithographie. Born on 8 March 1883 in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, Jean-Louis Boussingault, who belonged to the family of the che...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Connais-tu le Pays (Primavera) apres J. Rolshoven (Do you Know the Country)
By Theophile Narcisse Chauvel
Located in Fairlawn, OH
From 1874-1875, he worked for the annual album L'Eau forte and the magazine L'Art , which he became director of in the 1890s and in which were reproduced his prints after Théodore Ro...
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1880s Barbizon School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Antique Engraving of the Baths of Titus in Rome, Ruins, Niquet Family, c.1780
Located in Langweer, NL
The plate was “gravé à l’eau-forte par Niquet, le jeune” (etched by Niquet the Younger) and “terminé par Niquet, l’aîné” (finished by Niquet the Elder), reflecting a collaborative pr...
Category
Antique Early 17th Century French Maps
Materials
Paper
L'Ouvrier (The Worker) Playing Boules by Eugène Henri Millet, Published in 1873
$269Sale Price|20% Off
L'Ouvrier (The Worker) Playing Boules by Eugène Henri Millet, Published in 1873
Located in Langweer, NL
The print was issued as part of the *L'Illustration Nouvelle par une Société de Peintres-Graveurs à l'Eau-Forte* in its fifth year, Volume V, on November 1, 1873, with number 219 mar...
Category
Antique 1870s Prints
Materials
Paper
Shere Mill Pond
By Sir Francis Seymour Haden, R.A.
Located in Missouri, MO
This state is prior to publication in Études à l'Eau-Forte. Illustrated: Keppel The Golden Age of Engraving; Print Collector's Quarterly 1 (1911): 18; : Guichard, British Etchers, 18...
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Late 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Drypoint, Etching
Georges RouaultDes Ongles et Du Bec (abstract female portrait), 1948
$990Sale Price|44% Off
Des Ongles et Du Bec (abstract female portrait)
By Georges Rouault
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Canvas casing with a copper clasp and text printed on the edge. 1948 Etching and aquatint on wove paper. 25 3/5 × 19 9/10 inches (plate) 25.2 x 30.2 inches framed Techniques Eau-f...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Scissors. 1995. Paper, etching. 41.5x59 cm
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
1990s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Nostalgia. 1995. Paper, etching, 41x36 cm
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
1990s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Porioheresis. 2004. Paper, etching, 49.5x51.5 cm
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
Early 2000s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Change. Paper, etching, 39.5x59 cm
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
Early 2000s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Green frame. Paper, etching, aquatint, 43x42 cm
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
1990s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Flowers 1999, Paper, monotype
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
1990s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
XXX Paper, etching, 50x52 cm
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
1990s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Reservoir 2006, 8/50, paper, etching, 49.5x29 cm
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
Early 2000s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Origin Paper, etching, 42x36 cm
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
2010s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Still life with flounder
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
Early 2000s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Carousel 2001, 4/50, paper, etching, 6.5x6 cm
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
Early 2000s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Dinner 1988, paper, etching, 9x14 cm
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
2010s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Diffusion 2010, 13/50, A/P
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
2010s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Renée Mauperin by the Goncourt Bros., Original Tissot Etching, Signed
Located in Middletown, NY
Renée Mauperin; Edition ornée de dix composition à l'eau-forte par James TISSOT. Paris: Charpentier, 1884.
Category
Antique Late 19th Century French Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Nele ZirniteSong. 1984, Paper, etching, 38x58 cm, 1984
$725Sale Price|35% Off
Song. 1984, Paper, etching, 38x58 cm
By Nele Zirnite
Located in Riga, LV
Vitols, Valmiera, Latvia 1997 – Riga City Council Award, Riga in Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia 1997 – Award of Distinction, the Best in Printmaking, Rockport Publishers,...
Category
1980s Symbolist Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Etching
Eugene Leroy Abstract Composition, French Artist Proof Titled "Sleep"
$1,900Sale Price|36% Off
Eugene Leroy Abstract Composition, French Artist Proof Titled "Sleep"
By Eugène Leroy
Located in Miami, FL
Eugene Leroy abstract composition or original artist proof, eau forte or etching. This intriguing work of art is titled "Sleep".
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Drawings
Materials
Wood, Paper
Wareham Bridge
By Seymour Haden
Located in Missouri, MO
Other books by Haden not already mentioned are: • Etudes a l'eau forte (Paris, 1865) • About Etching (London, 1878-1879) • The Art of the Painter-Etcher (London...
Category
1870s Other Art Style Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Germaine Richier, Don Quichotte
By Germaine Richier
Located in Saint-Didier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Réalisée dans les années 1950, cette eau-forte (66 × 50 cm) représente l’un des sujets majeurs de l’artiste : Don Quichotte.
Category
1950s Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper
Edouard VuillardCouverture pour Douze Lithographies en Couleurs, ou Passage et Interieurs, 1896-1898
$5,500
Couverture pour Douze Lithographies en Couleurs, ou Passage et Interieurs
By Edouard Vuillard
Located in Fairlawn, OH
His store's sign "À la Belle Épreuve" is inspired by Philippe Burty's 1875 book L'Eau-forte , the preface of which itself is entitled La Belle Épreuve .
Category
1890s Post-Impressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Concetto Spaziale - Lithograph by Lucio Fontana - 1962
By Lucio Fontana
Located in Roma, IT
Includes frame: 43 x 38.5 From Alain Jouffroy's book 'L'épée dans l'eau: Lucio Fontana: 'Dix eaux-fortes' containing 10 etchings aquatint (two in colour), each signed in pencil and ...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
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Eau Forte For Sale on 1stDibs
Find the exact eau forte you’re shopping for in the variety available on 1stDibs. You can easily find an example made in the Modern style, while we also have 2 Modern versions to choose from as well. If you’re looking for a eau forte from a specific time period, our collection is diverse and broad-ranging, and you’ll find at least one that dates back to the 19th Century while another version may have been produced as recently as the 20th Century. If you’re looking to add a eau forte to create new energy in an otherwise neutral space in your home, you can find a work on 1stDibs that features elements of black, beige, gray and more. There have been many interesting eau forte examples over the years, but those made by Pierre Soulages, Pablo Picasso, Corneille and James Abbott McNeill Whistler are often thought to be among the most thought-provoking. Frequently made by artists working in etching, paper and lithograph, these artworks are unique and have attracted attention over the years.
How Much is a Eau Forte?
The price for an artwork of this kind can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — a eau forte in our inventory may begin at $697 and can go as high as $44,124, while the average can fetch as much as $11,446.
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Decorating with fine art prints — whether they’re figurative prints, abstract prints or another variety — has always been a practical way of bringing a space to life as well as bringing works by an artist you love into your home.
Pursued in the 1960s and ’70s, largely by Pop artists drawn to its associations with mass production, advertising, packaging and seriality, as well as those challenging the primacy of the Abstract Expressionist brushstroke, printmaking was embraced in the 1980s by painters and conceptual artists ranging from David Salle and Elizabeth Murray to Adrian Piper and Sherrie Levine.
Printmaking is the transfer of an image from one surface to another. An artist takes a material like stone, metal, wood or wax, carves, incises, draws or otherwise marks it with an image, inks or paints it and then transfers the image to a piece of paper or other material.
Fine art prints are frequently confused with their more commercial counterparts. After all, our closest connection to the printed image is through mass-produced newspapers, magazines and books, and many people don’t realize that even though prints are editions, they start with an original image created by an artist with the intent of reproducing it in a small batch. Fine art prints are created in strictly limited editions — 20 or 30 or maybe 50 — and are always based on an image created specifically to be made into an edition.
Many people think of revered Dutch artist Rembrandt as a painter but may not know that he was a printmaker as well. His prints have been preserved in time along with the work of other celebrated printmakers such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí and Andy Warhol. These fine art prints are still highly sought after by collectors.
“It’s another tool in the artist’s toolbox, just like painting or sculpture or anything else that an artist uses in the service of mark making or expressing him- or herself,” says International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) vice president Betsy Senior, of New York’s Betsy Senior Fine Art, Inc.
Because artist’s editions tend to be more affordable and available than his or her unique works, they’re more accessible and can be a great opportunity to bring a variety of colors, textures and shapes into a space.
For tight corners, select small fine art prints as opposed to the oversized bold piece you’ll hang as a focal point in the dining area. But be careful not to choose something that is too big for your space. And feel free to lean into it if need be — not every work needs picture-hanging hooks. Leaning a larger fine art print against the wall behind a bookcase can add a stylish installation-type dynamic to your living room. (Read more about how to arrange wall art here.)
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