Female Nude On Ladder In Studio, by Henri Boutet, Fr., (1851-1919) Etching

Female Nude On Ladder In Studio, by Henri Boutet, Fr., (1851-1919) EtchingLithograph, 1897, Ed. unknown, 10 7 16 x 8 3 8, printed in a soft gray black ink, signed in the stone lower right, a crease to the top left margin corner well away from subject, toning, a short repaired edge tear at right, creases and a tiny edge break to wide bottom margin edge, on thin smooth gray wove paper, 14 11 16 x 11, likely the same used as a chine colle for the other signed Boutet nude study in stock. A very pleasing print with the lovely

tack holes and glue residue in margins of board

Tiia Taks Sahni has worked as an illustrator

There is a diagonal crease with some fiber breakage just outside the upper right image corner

the margins trimmed but adequate

published in Paris by Francois Delarue

noteably a series of lithographs which extolled the heroic role of the American worker

well known for his skillful copies after other artists

printed on a sheet of antique simili japan laid paper

An old exhibition label from the American Federation of Arts noting the edition as 20 and the price as $30 accompanies this print along with a small note clipped from the original mount probably in the artist's hand stating "ed

and signed in the plate

Benson and Roland Clark

Martin's work comments on the scientific and theoretical