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Auguste Brouet - A Well in Normandy - Ba 132
Ba 132

A Well in Normandy

etching (1913)
The well is leaning against the wall of a farmhouse, near a door. Sitting in the doorway is a woman with her work on her knees, looking into the distance. Standing in front of the well, a man is holding a bucket on the curb and seems to be addressing the seated woman. In the foreground, another bucket on which a hoop is leaning (?).
3rd state, 82 mm × 143 mm.
Printed at 75 impressions and 3 à 5 state proofs.
Boutitie 27, IFF 1.4, BN, KBR, auteur, EB 21.
With rounded corners. B. 26 also belongs to this state.

Priv. coll.
Issued at 10 on parchment, 15 on japon and 50 on vergé, numbered and signed, by Delâtre for Diétrich. Some of the proofs were printed for effect. The two proofs reproduced by Boutitie as nos. 25 and 26 seem to belong to the same state, the final state, with the corners rounded off. In the B. 26 print the pulley has not printed, but this effect comes rather from a cover or a wiping.
Previous states
2nd state, 82 mm × 143 mm.
Printed at 3 à 5 state proofs.
BPL 7.
With the shadow work in aquatint, particularly visible on the seated peasant woman, which brings the tint to the lower half of the plate, as well as in etching and drypoint, particularly on the bucket.

1st state, 82 mm × 143 mm.
BPL 7, BPL 13.
In pure etching, the square corners, before the undercuts on the bucket and the works in aquatint.