Apr 25, 2012 - Sale 2277

Sale 2277 - Lot 268

Unsold
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
JAMES JACQUES TISSOT
Ces Dames des Chars.

Etching and drypoint, 1885. 402x255 mm; 15 7/8x10 inches, full margins. Wentworth's trial proof b, with the test scratches in the lower margin but before the additional shading on the roof and on the corsage of the blonde rider, aside from the published edition of several hundred. From La femme à Paris. A superb, well-inked impression of this extremely scarce, early proof. Wentworth 78.