Alphonse Legros, La Ferme De Valoux, Drypoint, Print With The Stamp Of The Artist's Studio

Alphonse Legros (1837 – 1911)
La Ferme de Valoux
Drypoint
109 x 116 mm (platemark)
221 x 178 mm (margins)

beautiful proof of the 8th state on laid paper (according to annotation)
Annotated lower left, in pencil : "348 iii non viii"
Stamp of the artist's studio, monogram "AL" (Lugt 140a)

Very good condition
Catalogue raisonné: Bliss 348 (see reproductions, no mention of an 8th state)

Provenance: Family of the artist ; Private collection, France

Quote from the Fondation Custodia regarding the stamp of Alphonse Legros' studio :
“The reproduced stamp was affixed by Lucien A. Legros, on proofs that his father had by chance left unsigned and on the few proofs printed after the artist's death. The habit of signing the proofs had been provoked by the demands of American amateurs and dealers, as a guarantee that the printing was not surreptitious. The stamp affixed by the son is a guarantee that the number of proofs printed, set by A. Legros before his death, has not been exceeded; the coppers were destroyed by the son, once the printing was finished.”

See also the other prints and the original drawing by Alphonse Legros published on my gallery