Mar 08, 2012 - Sale 2272

Sale 2272 - Lot 295

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 5,000 - $ 8,000
JAMES JACQUES TISSOT
Le Chapeau Rubens.

Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1875. 254x161 mm; 10x6 1/2 inches, wide margins. Edition of 50. Signed in pencil, lower left, and with the artist's red ink stamp (Lugt 1545, lower left recto). A superb impression of this very scarce, early drypoint.

We have found only 3 other impressions at auction in the past 25 years. Wentworth 8.