JEAN-ÉMILE LABOUREUR Vue Panoramique de la Ville de Nantes.
Woodcut on Japan paper, 1909. 280x641 mm; 11x25 1/4 inches, full margins. First state (of 3), before letters. Signed and numbered 3/5 in pencil, lower margin, and annotated and signed by Alphonse-François Lotz-Brissonneau in pencil, lower left. In the original A. Préaubert gilt wood frame and mat, with the framer's label on the frame back A very good impression of this extremely scarce woodcut.
We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 25 years.
Lotz-Brissonneau (1840-1920) see lot 6, was an important 19th-century prints collector, notably the works of Auguste Lepérè and Jean-Émile Laboureur, and along with Laboureur, a fellow native of Nantes. Laboureur 643.
