Rodolphe Bresdin (1822-1885)
The Knight and Death (Le Chevalier et la Mort), 1866
Etching on wove paper
7⅛ x 9⅞ inches (18 x 25 cm.)
Van Gelder 120; Préaud 138 first state (of three)
Very fine impression on thick wove paper, of the first state, before the plate reworked with roulette, scratching and burnishing, some soiling and foxing on the margins. Van Gelder mentions...
Very fine impression on thick wove paper, of the first state, before the plate reworked with roulette, scratching and burnishing, some soiling and foxing on the margins. Van Gelder mentions only three other impressions of this subject.
Provenance
Henry Marie Petiet [Lugt 5031]Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris, 2017