Ba 82

Saint-Ouen - Flea Market

etching (1910)

A composition in which height is used to give the illusion of depth, through an assembly of small subjects skillfully composed. In the foreground, a peddler, massive, slightly backwards, wearing a top hat. Next to him, in a three-quarter view, a ragpicker and a woman, who looks old, with an infant on her lap. In the background, the crowd is going about its miserable business, around a cart.

3^rd state, 140 mm × 195 mm.
Printed at 77 impressions and 15 artist proofs.
IFF 1.3, Universität Osnabrück.

Petiet edition, the letter erased and replaced by a second remarque, a man's head.

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Plate that belonged to Jean Borderel and was used for a Menu of the Société des Amis du Livre, 6 December 1910 at the Café de la Paix, Place de l'Opéra. The trial proofs with background tint (incomplete wiping) on different papers, the menus printed on ADL watermarked vellum. Four additional proofs without the menu were printed in 1914 on hollande by Delâtre. Print reissued by H. M. Petiet and Alexis around 1925, the letter replaced by a second remarque, a head. Numbered: artist's proofs at 15, a (trial?) print at 10, proofs on thin japanese paper at 25, on tinted Arches paper at 52, with 3 trial proofs, and proofs dedicated to HMP, J. Alexis, A. Brouet, Borderel, Vernant and Maurice Aguire [?]

2^nd state, 140 mm × 195 mm.
Printed at 40 impressions.
Boutitie 12, BPL 7.

With additional shading and a letter from a menu of the Society of Friends of Books. Four additional proofs were printed in 1914.the illustration is a trial proof before the plate was modified in the next state. The head that appears under the letter of the bibliophile society is drawn, not etched.

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