Charles Marie Dulac
(1865 – Paris – 1898)
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Landscape in bistre – 1893
Zincograph on simili-japon pasted onto the support sheet. Variant in bistre with a similar background tone of the plate. Impression 21. Signed and numbered in red crayon (lower left). Artist’s blind stamp (lower centre). Edition of 105 plus 17 proofs (printed in 5 different colour variants). With remarque “Les Pensées” (pansy flower). Printed by Monrocq Frères, Paris. Framed.
Size of sheet: 32 x 50 cm.
BN - IFF 1; Prelinger, E. (1995). Charles Dulac’s Suite de Paysages. Print Quarterly, 12 (1), pp. 41–52 (ill. 51).
Provenance: from the collection of Dr. Ronan Taburet (1926-2022) (his stamp verso).
Charles Marie Dulac: Landscape in bistre
This is plate 8 from the celebrated symbolist series “Suite de Paysages”. Inspired by the surroundings at Vézelay, the artist depicted canals, pools, forests, trees. In accordance with his stated intention, he concentrated on mood rather than on detail, taking the Symbolist approach of idealising nature. Dulac intended to capture the fleeting emotions rather than the transient effects of nature.