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RODOLPHE BRESDIN (1822-1885)
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RODOLPHE BRESDIN (1822-1885)

La mère et la mort

Closed24 January 2023

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RODOLPHE BRESDIN (1822-1885)
La mère et la mort
etching, 1861, on wove paper, without watermark, a very good impression of van Gelder's third state (of four), with wide margins, probably the full sheet, in good condition; together with Branchages, by the same hand, etching, circa 1880, on Chine appliqué on wove paper, a very good impression of the only state, from the first, posthumous edition of fifty impressions, with wide margins, presumably the full sheet, in good condition
La mère et la mort:
Plate 172 x 122 mm., Sheet 305 x 214 mm.
Branchages:
Plate 172 x 122 mm., Sheet 325 x 253 mm.
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La mère et la mort (V.G. 104):
With Galerie Grillon, Paris.
Acquired from the above in 1999; then by descent to the present owner.
Branchages (V.G. 146):
With Arsène Bonafous-Murat, Paris.
Acquired from the above in circa 1980; then by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

These two etchings were printed from the recto and verso of the same copper plate.
Branchages was never published in the artist's lifetime and, according to van Gelder, the print-run of the first edition was not completed; there was a second, numbered edition of 125 impressions, after the plate was reduced and steel-faced.