CHARLES FRANÇOIS DAUBIGNY
La Gardeuse de chèvres.
Cliché-verre, 1862.

14 x 11.5 inches. Trimmed to the margins of the image (compare with my final photo for an untrimmed impression).

A large, scarce cliché-verre. Blind stamp of Le Garrec on reverse, numbered 100/150 in pencil. Tape residue on reverse.

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."