Le Diner a L’Auberge

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Jean-Emile Laboureur (1877-1943), Le Diner a L’Auberge, 1917-1922), engraving, signed in pencil lower left and numbered (45/55) lower right. Reference: Sylvain Laboureur 173, second state (of 2). In excellent condition, with full margins, 8 x 6 3/4, the sheet 11 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches.

A fine impression, printed in black ink on a cream wove paper.

In the second state the figure of the woman is adjusted so that she holds the hat pin appended to her hat. Proofs of the first state were pulled in 1917;  a numbered edition of 55 impressions in the second state were printed in 1922.