Théophie Alexandre Steinlen, La Veuve, 1896, Lithograph On Holland, Anc. Coll. Beurdeley

Théophile Alexandre STEINLEN (1859-1923)
La Veuve, 1896 [Crauzat 178]
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Lithograph on Holland
Signed in the plate & handwritten signature in red pencil.
Numbered 7/30.
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Stamp of the Alfred Beurdeley (1847-1919) collection [Lugt 421].
Dry stamp from the publisher Edouard Kleinmann (1844-1927) [Lugt 1573] in the margin.
At the bottom, handwritten note in pencil L'Aurore 20 x bre 1897, most likely in the hand of Alfred Beurdeley.
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27.6 x 38.4 cm [subject]
36.5 x 48 cm [view]
55.5 x 68.5 cm [frame]
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Trace of oxidation at the opening of the old mounting (see photo 7, before restoration)
Lithograph cleaned and reassembled in its old frame, on cardboard and non-acid underpass.
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Crauzat specifies in his notice that this lithograph was typographically reproduced in black in L'Intransigeant. If we have not found it in this journal, it does appear in the December 20, 1897 issue of Aurore, as mentioned by the handwritten inscription in the margin.
Our lithograph was sold to Drouot on March 19, 1921 (Beurdeley collection n ° 390, sold for 215 francs).
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References
Ernest de CRAUZAT, L'Oeuvre gravé et lithographié de Steinlen, Société de Propagation des Livres d'Art, Paris 1913, pp. 58 and 68.
Collection A. Beurdeley (treizième vente), Catalogue des Estampes Modernes (sixième partie), expert Loys Delteil, Drouot March 18 and 19, 1921, n° 390 p.56