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Paysanne des Environs de Boulogne [Peasant girl from rural Boulogne]: P.14939-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Paysanne des Environs de Boulogne [Peasant girl from rural Boulogne]
94

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Legros, Alphonse

Entities

Categories

Description

A young woman sitting on a stone against the wall of a building. She wears a long cloak and a white cap and holds a large basket on her knee.

Legal notes

Given by Professor Alphonse Legros, 24 May 1879

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1879-05-24) by Legros, Alphonse

Dating

19th Century
1852 CE - ? 1877 CE

Note

Etching and aquatint with light surface tone, printed in brown ink on heavy Japanese paper. Second state (state number is printed on the mount in this case: '2e Etat'). Dodgson records nine states. Signed by the artist in brown ink in the margin at lower right: 'A. Legros'. In Dodgson this is additionally described: 'dite "La Femme Au Panier" ['known as "the woman with the basket" ']. One of 20 prints on mounts printed with numbers and titles and contained inside a portfolio half-bound with green cloth (spine and corners) and grey paper and with printed title: 'Eaux-fortes / par Alphonse Legros.'. Acquisition information at lower centre written in pen and ink (probably by John Charrington): 'Given by Prof. A. Legros / 24 May 1879'. The inside of the front board bears the stamp of the London-based mounter and frame-maker, Robert Guéraut who published Legros' etchings after 1863 and who also collected Legros' prints.

School or Style

French

Techniques used in production

Aquatint
Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14939-R
Primary reference Number: 239999
Dodgson (Legros): 94.ii
Poulet-Malassis/Thibaudeau: 94
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 9 January 2020 Updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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