Live Auction 21481Old Master and 19th Century Prints
FÉLIX BRACQUEMOND (1833-1914)
Lot 143 PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NORWEGIAN COLLECTION

FÉLIX BRACQUEMOND (1833-1914)

Portrait d'Edmond de Goncourt

Closed24 January 2023

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FÉLIX BRACQUEMOND (1833-1914)
Portrait d'Edmond de Goncourt
etching and engraving, 1882, on laid Japan paper, a fine impression of the first state (of eight), inscribed 1er état, dedicated 'à Alidor Delzant/ Edmond de Goncourt' in pencil by the sitter, one of twenty impressions known in this state, with margins, some stains and foxmarks, otherwise in good condition
Plate 510 x 335 mm.
Sheet 532 x 390 mm.

Edmond de Goncourt (1822-1896), Nancy, Paris.
Alidor Delzant (1848-1905), Paris; a gift from the above.
Piasa, Paris, 17 April 2008, lot 128.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Félix Bracquemond's enigmatic portrait of his friend, the author and art theorist Edmond de Goncourt, was commissioned by de Goncourt himself in 1879. The preliminary drawing was shown in 1880 at the fifth exhibition of the Impressionists, and over the subsequent months Bracquemond developed the etching through eight different states (see the following lot for an example of the eighth, final state).
Alidor Delzant, to whom this fine impression is dedicated, was Edmond de Goncourt's friend and executor, and the author of a book on Paul de Saint-Victor, and one on the Goncourt brothers titled Les Goncourt, published in 1889.