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Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
ÉDOUARD MANET La Queue devant la Boucherie.
Etching printed in dark brown on cream laid paper, 1870-71. 239x160 mm; 9 1/4x6 3/8 inches, full margins. First state (of 2), before cancellation. A very good impression of this extremely scarce etching.
We have found only 10 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years. According to Harris, "This plate seems to have been etched during the teribble four-month seige of Paris in 1870. Manet's letters to his wife during this period are filled with tales of the scarcity of meat, so it has been assumed that the etching depicts a line in front of a butcher's shop, although there is nothing in the print specifically to confirm with this identification." Guérin 58; Harris 70.
