Louis Legrand Art

A superb, richly-inked impression, with skilfully wiped plate tone and burr in the drypoint, printed in dark sepia ink on cream laid paper, with the Louis LeGrand watermark in the bo...

English Bar. 1908. Etching and drypoint. Exsteens catalog 275 state ii. 8 1/8 x 5 5/8 (sheet 17 3/8 x 12 1/4). Series: Les Bars. Edition 65 in this state (total edition 95). Printed ...

Sportsmen. 1908. Etching and drypoint. Exsteens 271.i/ii. 11 1/4 x 5 3/4 (sheet 17 3/8 x 12 1/4). Series: Les Bars. From the first state edition of 30 proofs with the remarque sketch...

Louis LEGRAND (1863-1951) Bather, 1911 Original drypoint etching Pencil signed bottom right (also plate signed on the right) Numbered 38/50 Bearing G Pellet editor stamp On vellum ...

L'Aieule (The Grandmother) Etching and aquatint printed in colors, 1904 Signed with the red stamp of the publisher, Gustave Pellet, Lugt 1193 and numbered (see photo) Edition: 100 (81/100) Reference: Arwas 202 iv/IV IFF 98 Condition: Excellent, the sheet aged as usual Image size: 14 1/4 x 18 5/8" Sheet size: 16 15/16 x 24 1/4" Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand (29 September 1863 – 1951) was a French artist, known especially for his aquatint engravings, which were sometimes erotic. He was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his work in 1906. Life Legrand was born in the city of Dijon in the east of France. He worked as a bank clerk before deciding to study art part-time at Dijon's Ecole des Beaux-Arts. He won the Devosge prize at the school in 1883.[2] In 1884 Legrand studied engraving under the Belgian printmaker Félicien Rops. Legrand's artworks include etchings, graphic art and paintings. His paintings featured Parisian social life. Many were of prostitutes, dancers and bar scenes, which featured a sense of eroticism. According to the Hope Gallery, "Louis Legrand is simply one of France's finest early twentieth century masters of etching." His black and white etchings especially provide a sense of decadence; they have been compared to those of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, though his drawings of the Moulin Rouge, the can-can dance and the young women of Montmartre preceded Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of similar scenes. He made over three hundred prints of the night life of Paris. They demonstrate "his remarkable powers of observation and are executed with great skill, delicacy, and an ironic sense of humor that pervades them all." Two of his satirical artworks caused him to be tried for obscenity. The first, "Prostitution" was a symbolic drawing which depicted a naked girl being grasped by a dark monster which had the face of an old woman and claws on its hands; the second, "Naturalism", showed the French novelist Émile Zola minutely studying the thighs of a woman with a magnifying glass. Defended by his friend the lawyer Eugène Rodrigues-Henriques (1853–1928), he was found not guilty in the lower court, but was convicted in the appeal court and then given a short prison sentence for refusing to pay his fine. Legrand was made famous by his colour illustrations for Gil Blas magazine's coverage of the can-can, with text by Rodrigues (who wrote under the pseudonym Erastene Ramiro). It was a tremendous success, with the exceptional quantity of 60,000 copies of the magazine being printed and instantly sold out in 1891. In 1892, at the instigation of the publishing house Dentu, Legrand made a set of etchings of his Gil Blas illustrations. The etchings were published in a book, Le Cours de Danse Fin de Siecle (The End of the Century Dance Classes). Legrand took a holiday in Brittany, which inspired him to engrave a set of fourteen lithographs of simple country life called Au Cap de la Chevre (On Goat Promontory). It was published by Gustave Pellet who became a close friend of Legrand's. Pellet eventually published a total of 300 etchings by Legrand, who was his first artist; he also published Toulouse-Lautrec and Félicien Rops among others. He did not only work in graphics; he exhibited paintings at the Paris salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts starting in 1902. In 1906 he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur. Legrand died in obscurity in 1951. A retrospective exhibition was held at the Félicien Rops museum in Namur, Belgium in 2006 to celebrate his graphic art. The art collector Victor Arwas published a catalogue raisonné for the occasion. Books illustrated de Maupassant, Guy: Cinq Contes Parisiens, 1905. Poe, Edgar Alan: Quinze Histoires d'Edgar Poe...

La Toilette Drypoint, 1908 Signed and numbered in pencil by the artist (see photos) Edition: 65 this state (35/65) Published by Gustave Pellet (1859-1919),...

Danseuses s'habillant (Laurence adjusting her hair and Mignon adjusting hre clothes) Drypoint & aquatint, 1893 Signed in the plate (see photo) After the division of the plate into A....

Medium: original etching and drypoint. This impression on wove paper was printed in 1908 and published in Paris by the Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne. Plate size: 8 x 5 1/2 inches ...

Le Coq is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière a...

Le Chat d'Angora is an etching realized in 1771 by ` (1723-1807). It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du Roi". Arti...

Le Chat Sauvage is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditions.

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditi...

L'Ecureuil Suisse is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand. Signed in plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la descripti...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditi...

Anatomy of Animals is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet ...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditi...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditi...

Anatomy of Animals is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet ...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditi...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditi...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditi...

Composition with Animals is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good condit...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditi...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditi...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale ...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la descripti...

Anatomy of Animals is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). It belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet ...

Le Guib is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la description du Cabinet du ...

The Organ is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulièr...

Le Nagor is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière...

Le Tarsier is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliè...

Autre Kabassou is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et partic...

The Skeleton is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particul...

La Chauve is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulièr...

Interior of an Animal is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et...

Interior of Animals is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Signed in plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière ave...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale ...

L'Elan is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière a...

Le Furet is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière...

Skeleton is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Signed in plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la descri...

La Gelinote is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Signed in plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la des...

Skeleton is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Signed in plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière avec la descri...

La Rougtte is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliè...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in a well balanced composition. Good conditio...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditi...

Composition with Animals is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes. Good condi...

Composition with Animals is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork is depicted through confident strokes. Good condi...

Composition with Angels is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). The Artwork is depicted through confident strokes in aa well balanced composition. Good conditi...

Le Muscardin is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particul...

Skeleton is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière...

Papion is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière a...

Le Patas a Bandeau Blanc is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale...

Interior of an Animal is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et...

The Skeleton is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particul...

The Organs is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliè...

La Fossane is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particuliè...

The Skeleton is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particul...

Chauvesouris is an etching realized in 1771 by Louis Legrand (1723-1807). Titled and Signed on the plate. The artwork Belongs to the suite "Histoire naturelle, générale et particul...