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BERTHE MORISOT Berthe Morisot dessinant, avec sa fille.
Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1889. 190x140 mm; 7 1/2x5 1/2 inches, full margins. First state (of 2), before the cancellation holes upper and lower center and before the beveling of the plate. Porcabeuf watermark. A brilliant, early impression, with no sign of wear, with dark, richly-inked burr and crisp plate edges.
An extremely scarce impression from the edition of approximately only 25 printed in 1904-05 for Ernest Rouart, prior to the subsequent posthumous impressions, with cancellation marks, printed for Vollard and the Gazette des Beaux-Arts. Johnston 8.
