Auguste DELIERRE
La Fontaine, fables, Le cerf malade. Gravure originale à l'Eau Forte sur papier Vergé
A. Quantin|Paris 1883|22 x 31.50 cm|une feuille
Original etching before letters heightened with aquatint and signed in the plate.
Made on laid paper at the request of publisher A. QUANTIN to illustrate La Fontaine's fable: "The Sick Stag".
Very fine condition, presented in a modern black mat and protected by tissue guard.
Auguste Delierre (1829-1891) is referenced thus in Bénézit, dictionary of painters, sculptors, draughtsmen and engravers: "history painter, genre scenes, animated landscapes, still lifes, illustrator. Student of Eugène Ciceri, he participated in the Paris Salon between 1852 and 1889. His compositions of landscapes animated with hunting dogs show the influence of works by Desportes and Oudry which he long c
Made on laid paper at the request of publisher A. QUANTIN to illustrate La Fontaine's fable: "The Sick Stag".
Very fine condition, presented in a modern black mat and protected by tissue guard.
Auguste Delierre (1829-1891) is referenced thus in Bénézit, dictionary of painters, sculptors, draughtsmen and engravers: "history painter, genre scenes, animated landscapes, still lifes, illustrator. Student of Eugène Ciceri, he participated in the Paris Salon between 1852 and 1889. His compositions of landscapes animated with hunting dogs show the influence of works by Desportes and Oudry which he long c
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