Sl, Société Septentrionale de Gravure, 1924.
Original etching, proof on vellum watermarked “MBM” (Dimensions: Bowl: 265 x 370 mm - margins: 386 x 575 mm), signed in pencil below the proof on the right , dry stamp "SSG" and small note representing fish at the bottom left.
Very good state.
Rare original etching by André Dauchez, painter, etcher, designer, illustrator and photographer in love with Brittany, representing a row of pines on Ile Chevalier, island of Finistère, in Brittany. It is located on the territory of the commune of Pont-l'Abbé.
Print from prints published by the Société Septentrionale de Gravures, a company founded by Julien Deturck (1862-1941), a renowned Bailleul engraver, and Victor de Swarte, in 1900, its "exclusive aim is to popularize, through engraving or lithography, the artistic wealth of the northern region of France (departments of Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Somme), as well as the contemporary works of artists from this region, and those that exist outside, in the museums and collections. (Excerpt from the statutes of 1900). Although this Society mainly published engravings of interpretations of works by masters, it nevertheless published a few original engravings, most of the time countersigned, in limited editions (generally 300 copies in ordinary edition, some of them they have benefited from a print run of a few numbered copies on China or Japan).
We join the very rare captioned snake.