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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
RODOLPHE BRESDIN Le Bon Samaritaine.
Lithograph on two Chines appliqués, 1861. 562x440 mm; 22 1/8x17 3/8 inches (sheet), trimmed to the image. Préaud's first state B (of 2), with the "white bird" lower left and before the transfer to another stone in 1868. Edition of approximately 200 lifetime impressions. Printed by Lemercier, Paris. A very good and richly-inked impression of this very important lithograph with extremely strong contrasts and all the details distinct.
Lifetime impressions, such as the current work, are exceedingly scarce; we have located only 9 other such impressions at auction in the past 30 years. There is also a more common, posthumous edition of approximately 800 impressions (printed after the transfer of the subject to another stone). Van Gelder 100; Préaud 29.
