Felix Bracquemond- Chemin de Halage Au Bas Meudob- EtchingRare Felix Braquemond " Chemin de halage au Bas-Meudon " or (Towpath at Bas-Meudon) etched in 1868 on chine collé and onto a support sheet inscribed below the image . Image measures 5 7/8 inches by 8 1/2 inches . The great image is in good condition .Duplicate impression of this impression is in the Spencer Art Museum in Kansas.Félix Henri Bracquemond (May 22, 1833 – October 29, 1914) was a French painter and etcher .Félix Bracquemond was born in Paris. He was trained in early youth as a trade lithographer , until Guichard a pupil of Ingres took him to his studio. His portrait of his grandmother, painted by him at the age of nineteen, attracted Gautier 's attention at the Salon.He applied himself to etching-engraving about 1853, and played a leading and brilliant part in the revival of the etcher's art in France. Altogether he produced over eight hundred plates, comprising portraits, landscapes, scenes of contemporary life, and bird-studies, besides numerous interpretations of other artist's paintings, especially those of Meissener, Mourau,Corot and others

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