Les CerfsCliché-verre by Charles-Francois Daubigny
1862
Numbered 1/1 in pencil, verso. Published by le Garrec, Paris, with the blind stamp (Lugt supplement 1768a, verso). Delteil 134; Melot 134.
The Lugt Foundation writes of the blind stamp:
"The letters S and L composing this mark are the initials of the publisher Sagot and his successor Le Garrec (see L.2253-54). The stamp was affixed by Le Garrec to the back of all the proofs of his edition, in 1921, of the Album of 40 clichés-verres of Corot, Daubigny, Rousseau, Millet, Delacroix, printed on the plates of the old Cuvelier collection (from Arras, friend of Constant Dutilleux), passed to the Parisian collector Albert Bouasse-Lebel who, after having made a limited edition, sold them to Le Garrec. Le Garrec edition: 150 copies containing a simple series, and 5 copies containing a double series of proofs in different tones or inverted.
The mark is accompanied by the numbering of the proof, in pencil."
This example has the blindstamp, but instead of the x/150 numbering, has 1/1 in pencil. This suggests that the impression is a singular proof outside the Le Garrec edition.
6 1/2 x 7 7/8 inches
See my last photo for another example from the Le Garrec edition that sold at auction (with a negligible print by Charles Jacques) for $3,120 at Swann Auctions in 2010.