Lucien Penat (1873-1955). “young Girl With A Headdress”. Etching.

Wooden frame (usual wear). Frame dimensions: 71 x 56 cm. Sheet dimensions: 65 x 50 cm. Dimensions of the bowl: 50 x 35 cm.
Delivered without glass. Original etching. Printing on Press. Soft waist. Prix de Rome for engraving in 1902 for this etching.
Signed at the tip in the engraving, titled in pencil lower left.
Lucien Penat (1873-1955) is a French painter and engraver. He studied at the National School of Art in Bourges. He was admitted to the studio of the engraver Jules Jacquet at the École des beaux-arts in Paris and also attended the studio of Léon Bonnat. In 1902 he won the first Grand Prix de Rome in engraving and spent four years at the Villa Medici. Vice-president of the Society of Burin Engraving Artists, in 1911 he was one of the founding members of the Society of Original Black Engraving. From 1934 to 1944, he was a professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts. In 1937, he became head of the intaglio engraving workshop.