Tête de Souliote: P.14950-R

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

19th Century
Production date: AD 1877

Note

Etching and drypoint with some surface tone, printed in dark brown ink on heavy Japanese paper. First state/second state, after drypoint additions and touched with pen and ink. This touched proof has numerous pen and brown ink additions to the shoulders, beard, hairline above the forehead, around the ear and including the diagonal hatching on the neck. Additional, heavy drypoint lines to the outline of the face (especially the nose and moustache) and to the back of the head which are not evident in impressions of the second state would appear to indicate that this is an unrecorded state in between the first and second as described by Dodgson. See examples of first states in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale (IFN 10545419) and the British Museum (1958,0627.1) and second states in the Bibliothèque Nationale: 10545420 and 10545421. Signed in the margin at lower right: 'A. Legros'. Whilst the number printed on the mount corresponds with _Tête de Souliote_ as given in Bliss, the printed title on the mount (created before the continuation of Malassis-Thibadeau and the revisions by Bliss et al) is given as 'Étude de Tête'. 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