Mademoiselle Marcelle Lender, En Buste (French Version)

1895

12 1/8 x 16 1/4 in /
30.5 x 40.6 cm

Pan French edition of 1895
Nuumber 42 of 100 impressions
Key stone printed in olive-green, color stones in yellow, red, dark pink, turquoise-green, blue, grey and yellow-green on strong textured wove paper
Without letterpress text
Orange-red monogram stamp in lower left
Printed by Ancourt (H. Stern)
Published by Pan, Berlin, Paris in conjunction with the French supplement to vol. 1, no 3, of the magazine
RARE

The finest of the six Chilperic works is this sheet, later published in the German magazine Pan in September 1895: an eight-color, half-length portrait of the French performer Marcelle Lender in a fantastic Spanish costume, bowing in response to the applause of the audience. No other lithograph is printed with such a wealth of subtle color combinations, and none embodies, as this does, the opulent decoration of an age moving towards its close. Apart from various trial proofs, four states of differing sizes are known of this lithograph.

References: Wittrock 99, Adriani 115