Aux Halles Croquis par C. Bourget.
Black & white lithograph (58.4 x 45.7 cm, image area 38.8 x 29.7 cm), applied chine-collé paper on contemporary soft cardboard, signed in pencil on the lower right by Bourget. Faint embossed stamp of Edmond Sagot, Parisian printmaker and dealer, on lower left. A few minute stains along the upper right margin, generally very good. Lively popular scene illustrating a fishmonger at her stand in the Halles, the famous food market in the center of Paris, here displaying her fish for sale. The large characters of the title let us believe that the print might have been conceived for promotional use. The artist, Camille Bourget (1866–1931), was a French painter and engraver celebrated for his evocative street scenes of Belle Époque Paris. Born in Clermont-Ferrand, Bourget studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Alexandre Cabanel and Léon Bonnat. A dedicated member of the Société des Artistes Français since 1895, he exhibited regularly at their Paris Salon for over two decades. Two of his lithographs were published in the art publication L'Épreuve. His work is featured at the National Gallery of Art and the Musee Carnavalet.
* * Benezit, Vol. II, p. 239.
Price: $495.00