Sep 20, 2018 - Sale 2485

Sale 2485 - Lot 120

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
JEAN-FRANÇOIS RAFFAËLLI
Bon Homme Venant de Peindre sa Barriere.

Color etching and drypoint, 1904. 272x193 mm; 10 5/8x7 5/8 inches, full margins. Signed and inscribed "Ep. no. 5-150" in pencil, lower right. A very good impression of this scarce print.

We have found only 2 other impressions at auction in the past 30 years.

This etching is based on the artist's same-titled oil from circa 1880, among the most praised of his ouvre, which sold at Sotheby's, New York, May 9, 2014, lot 18. Delteil 55.