LOUIS AUGUSTE LEGRAND
1863 Dijon – 1951 Livry-Gargan
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Le Déshabillage [Undressing] – 1893
Etching and aquatint on cream Japon paper. From the album ‘Les Petites du Ballet’ published by Gustave Pellet, Paris. Size of sheet: 46.5 x 30.7 cm. Signed and titled in the plate.
Arwas A87, Exteens 77.
Beautiful impression, perhaps an intermediate state between the ninth state and the final state, with the griffin in note but scratched and with the engraved title.
Louis Auguste Legrand: Le Déshabillage
The brilliant draughtsman and printmaker Louis Legrand is one of the most famous artists of the French Belle Époque, a time of freedom, progress and joie de vivre. Legrand depicted Paris life, its cafés, theatres, dancers and the decadent world of the beau monde. He became one of the most admired and sought after artists of the era and was perhaps the most successful printmaker of his period in Paris.