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Auguste Brouet - Portrait of Spies - Ba 22
Ba 22

Portrait of Spies

etching (1904)
A small portrait, engraved quickly, of a man with a poor appearance, a slightly haggard eye, bushy hair and a scraggly moustache (Clément-Janin).
Only state, 33 mm × 42 mm.
Printed at 50 impressions.
Boutitie 65, BPL 4, EB 19, EG 90, PGF 1906.
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Priv. coll.
Printed on hollande by Delâtre for Diétrich. According to Grignard, it is the portrait of Brouet's cleaning man. It could also be a portrait of the artist's father, who would have ended his life in a bohemian mess, a portrait made from memory (Clément-Janin in Print Connoisseur, vol. V n°1, 1925). Finally, we note the resemblance with the photographs of August Spies, an anarchist of German origin implicated and convicted in the Haymarket affair in Chicago in 1886.