Pierre-Edme BABEL
1720 Paris – 1775 Kehl
Etching after Nicolas or Dominique Pineau

Belle épreuve sur vergé, justifiée et signée au crayon bleu. Manques marginaux; quelques légères traces de plis. Petites marges.

Very good impression on laid paper, printed in colors at the location, published in “L’Art Décoratif” during 1905. Slight oxidation of the sheet and short marginal tear.

Raoul du GARDIER
1871 Wiesbaden + 1952 Pornic
Etching and aquatint

Belle épreuve sur vergé imprimée en brun et rouge, justifiée et signée. Trace de passe-partout à l’ouverture d’un ancien montage; légère trace de pli vertical et petite cassure. Tirage à 25 épreuves. Belles marges.

René BOYVIN
ca 1525 Angers + ca 1625
Engraving after L. Thiry

René Georges HERMANN-PAUL
1864 Paris + 1940 Les Saintes Maries de la Mer
Woodcut

Good impression on wove paper printed in black and red chalk at the location. Some rare foxings, mostly visible on the back; some small snags on the subject, one causing a tiny hole; slight small break at center. Good margins.

Very good impression on wove paper printed in colors, annotated “Épreuve d’état tirée par l’artiste” and signed. Editor C. Hessèle’s stamp (Lugt nr ).

Impression on strong wove paper, signed. Some small tears in the wide margins and uniform oxidation. Publisher’s stamp Hessèle (Lugt n°554).

Titled, signed and dated. Maintained by points of glue on wove paper.

Robert BONFILS
1886 Paris + 1971 Paris
Woodcut

Robert HECQUET editor
1693 Abbeville + 1775 Paris
Etching and engraving

Petitjean and Wickert nr 183 (IV / VI). Very good impression of 4th state (of 6), with the date of 1658. Strip of paper added at foot masking the platemark; small ink stain on the back at foot, very barely visible on front and tiny tear (?) at top. Small margins.

Robert NANTEUIL
1623 Reims + 1678 Paris
Engraving

1822 Montrelais + 1885 Sèvres