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Jean-François Millet 1814-1875
Estimate
3,000 - 4,000 GBP
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Description
- Jean-François MIllet
- la precaution maternelle (delteil 27; melot 27)
Cliché-verre printed in green, 1862, one of the few impressions mentioned by Delteil printed in reverse, probably printed by Le Garrec, on wove paper, with small to thread margins, in good condition; with la cardeuse (d.15; m.15), etching, 1855-56, a very good impression of the only state, printing with rich tone, on light-blue paper, with an Initial watermark, with margins, extreme tips of left corners missing, pale mount-staining in margins; with self-portrait, after the same, black chalk drawing, bearing a signature, on buff coloured wove paper, with margins, slight handling creases; with Sir Francis Seymour Haden, mytton hall (schneiderman 19), drypoint, 1859, a very good impression, printing with burr, on japan paper, with margins; with s.17; 24; 119; 133, etchings, two signed in pencil, on various papers, with margins, in good condition
Provenance
d.15 following an inscription in pencil in lower margin recto ex coll. T. G. Arthur, Glasgow 1913 (not in Lugt); s.19 ex coll. E. M. Henn (L.872b), s.17 with an unidentified collector's mark recto (not in Lugt); s.133 with the artist's stamp (L.1048)