Edmund Dulac | Ma Lisette, 1913, signed by the artist

Edmund Dulac

Ma Lisette, 1913

310 x 245mm.(frame 634 x 544mm.), watercolour, SIGNED AND DATED BY THE ARTIST ON LOWER RIGHT ("13"), framed and glazed

Ma Lisette, which depicts a poet can be seen reciting his verses to his lover on the sofa, was first published in the 1913 Christmas issue of L'Illustration, as one of four works on the theme of old French folk songs, Quatre Chansons du Vieux Temps. The other illustrations in the series include: l’amoreux transi, la petite lingere, and cadet rouselle. In 1915 Ma Lisette was reproduced in Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross, comprising 20 colour plates from previous book and magazine illustrations.

PROVENANCE:

Bonhams, 15 June 2016, Lot 132: label to verso; From the collection of the late Colin White

EXHIBITION:

The Leicester Galleries, London, November-December 1913, no. 17: "Ernest Brown & Phillips: The Leicester Galleries" label (damaged)

LITERATURE:

L'Illustration, Noël No.3693, 6 December 1913; Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross, Hodder and Stoughton, London 1915, p. 62; Colin White, Edmund Dulac, 1976, p. 60; Catalogue of an Exhibition of Water-colour drawings illustrating "Princess Badoura", By Edmund Dulac and Drawings for Sir J. M. Barrie's "Quality Street", by Hugh Thomson, Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, 1913