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This item WAS NOT SOLD. Auction date was 2002 Oct 26 @ 05:00UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
ROPS, Félicien.- Ma Goutte. Eau-forte et pointe sèche.
Partie centrale (# R 875; # E. 320) : 248 x 114 mm, japon collé en plein sur la pièce suivante.
Partie extérieure (# R. 970; # E. 319) : 387 x 275 mm, hollande Van Gelder vergé à petites marges (484 x 350 mm, bords sup. et dr. pliés).
La planche est dédicacée à la pointe dans le champ à droite "[...] à mon vieux copain Victor de la Hesbaye, goutteux très précieux de S.M. le Roi des Belges".
Rare épreuve : monogrammée au crayon rouge sous la cuvette, elle porte, à la mine de graphite, différents titres autographes sous 7 des 10 saynètes des bordures de la partie extérieure : "Mr de Monthyon s'éloigne avec la forte somme !!" (sous le bocal, coin sup. g.),- "Galanterie Posthume !" (sous le monument, coin sup. dr.),- "Désespoir du peintre" (au-dessous du petit amour poignardé par la pointe du graveur, bord dr.),- "L'attaque" (ou la goutte mordant le petit amour, id.),- "Souvenirs & Regrets" (sous la bouteille de vin abandonnée, id.),- "L'initiation à la valse !" (ou comment danser avec un pied goutteux, coin inf. dr.),- "Impavidum ferient Ruinae !" (bord. inf.).
Rops a également légendé les saynètes d'une autre épreuve de cette planche (# Sadeler, v.p. Simonson, Brux., 1987, n° 133).
3e état sur 3 pour la partie centrale et 3e état sur 4 (avant la disparition du TC) pour la partie extérieure.
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