"Couche de Soliel" by Alphonse Legros, Fr., (1837-1911) Pastel There are tack holes with

There are tack holes with minor rust stains at margin edges from the original stretching and drying of this proof after printing

and some short repaired edge tears in the large margins

with multiple tack holes to the four corners

Created two years after the first American lithograph

Kansas City Art Institute and elsewhere

"Couche de Soliel" by Alphonse Legros, Fr., (1837-1911) Pastel There are tack holes withDrypoint, 1880's, 3rd. s., B. 254III, Ed. unknown, 3 3 4 x 6 7 8, signed in pencil, on cream laid paper. A modest little landscape, rendered lyrical by virtue of Legros's magnificent draftsmanship which makes us see beauty in the ordinary.