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An original drypoint etching on cream laid paper by French artist Émile Lequeux (1871-?) titled "Petite Chapelle à Bruges (Little Chapel in Bruges)", 1909. Printed in brown and black. Printed by Louis Fort and published by the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France in 1909. Sheet size: 10.25" x 7". Image Size: 8.25" x 5.5". In excellent condition.This drypoint etching was published by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts was a French art review, found in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as its first chief editor. Assia Visson Rubinstein was chief editor under the direction of George Wildenstein from 1928 until 1960. Her papers, which include all editions of the Gazette from this period, are intact at the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne in Dorigny. The Gazette was a world reference work on art history for nearly 100 years – one other editor in chief, from 1955 to 1987, was Jean Adhémar. It was bought in 1928 by the Wildenstein family, whose last representative was Daniel Wildenstein, its director from 1963 until his death in 2001. The review closed in 2002.Émile Lequeux (1871-?) was an engraver. Born in Haute-Ville (Marne), Émile Lequeux was a member of the Salon des Artistes Français from 1909, winning an honorable mention in 1906. Please check out Lot #’s 0482 & 0483 The Callcott and the Shayer original art, These are important original antique paintings .
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