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Auguste Brouet - The Small Dancer - Ba 161
Ba 161

The Small Dancer

dry point, roller (1903)
In the foreground, on a fairground stage, the little dancer in a short skirt and hat. In the background, an accordion player, a woman in a bun and a young acrobat.
Only state, 122 mm × 162 mm.
BPL 12.
The only known proof, printed in bistre on hollande laid paper, has been annotated with the abandoned roulette and [dry] point plate by Grignard.

The plate was destroyed without being finished. The date of 1903 given by Grignard seems to me questionable. The single print was reproduced in the issue of Art et Décoration (Feb. 1914) under the title Parade and the theme is indeed taken up again in the Parade (Ba 162). Moreover the technique is close to the Pont Saint-Michel (Ba 42), and not very much in relation with the technique used in 1903. I am therefore leaning towards a date of creation around 1910.