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ALFREDO MÜLLER Devant la Lampe.
Color etching and aquatint with hand coloring in watercolor on cream laid paper, 1904. 397x300 mm; 15 5/8x11 3/4 inches, full margins. Signed in pencil, lower right. Auvergne watermark. A very good impression.
Müller (1969-1939) was born in Livorno to a wealthy Swiss merchant family. He studied art in Florence and by the 1890s had moved to Paris and settled in Montmartre where he became friends with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Paul Cézanne. Müller honed his skill as a master color etcher in Paris, then a hub for intaglio printmaking centered around the studios of Auguste Delâtre and Jean-François Raffaëlli (see lot 99), as seen in this expertly-executed etching of a turn-of-the-century "can-can" dancer on a Parisian stage.
