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GEORGE HENDRICK BREITNER
Amsterdam 1857 – 1923 |
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| Standing female nude |
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Etching, ca. 1891-’93.
29.4 x 18.9 cm platemark.
Ample margin all round
Watermark: Van Gelder
Literature: Bionda, R., ‘Breitner als etser’, Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, vol. 35, no. 4, 1987, p. 304, catalogue no. 12 (only state). |
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Fine impression. The platemark lower side broken and restored.
Printed in brown ink. Light brown plate-tone.
This print is described in Bionda’s catalogue with other dimensions, 8.6 by 5.9 cm smaller than the print here depicted. |
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| The plate is made smaller before printing a small edition. Our print is an impression of a first state, the only impression of the untrimmed plate known to exist. |
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| According to Bionda the nude has been printed in 25 copies, information written on a photograph kept in the RKD archive. |
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