Félix Bracquemond

Félix Bracquemond stands among the central figures of nineteenth-century French etching, a medium he helped revive through close attention to line, tone, and the printed surface. His plates range across literary subjects, rural genre scenes, and reproductive prints after painters such as Millet, worked in etching and its successive states. The five sheets gathered here trace that practice from 1859 to 1888, each an etching and several preserved in distinct states that record the plate's development. Titles such as Don Quichotte and Le Printemps, d'après un pastel de Millet indicate the breadth of subject and the reproductive bent of the selection.

5 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

Frontispiece for Champfleury's "Les Amis de la Nature"

1859 · Etching; fourth state of four

Don Quichotte

1860 · Etching; second state of two

Les Demoiselles de village

1867 · Etching; third state of three

Les Demoiselles du village

1869 · Etching; second (?) state of three

Le Printemps, d'après un pastel de Millet

1888 · Etching; ninth state of nine