Les taupes, 1854

  • Félix Joseph Auguste Bracquemond, French, 1833-1914
  • Pierron, French

Etching printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 10 3/4 × 7 7/8 inches (27.3 × 20 cm) Sheet: 16 1/2 × 12 5/8 inches (41.9 × 32.1 cm)

City of Detroit Purchase

21.51

Signed, in plate, upper right edge of image: Bracquemond | inv & fec

Watermark: COMP

Inscribed, in plate, lower left of image, above verse: 1854 Inscribed, verse in plate as part of the image, lower left: Aux ramilles du peuplier | Danse la taupe suspendue; | Et vers la ferme le Taupier | Va reclamer la somme due.; Inscribed, lower right: Imp. Pierron rue de Montfaucon No. 1. In pencil, lower left corner of sheet: 716 Inscribed, lower right corner: B134 3rd Inscribed, in lower right corner: [erasures] Inscribed, in pencil, verso: X/1784/Z Inscribed, in pencil, verso: C8739/C3688 (crossed-out) | r- Inscribed, in pencil, verso: Les Taupes

1921-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Félix Joseph Auguste Bracquemond, Les taupes, 1854, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, City of Detroit Purchase, 21.51.