Félix Bracquemond - Le Joueur de Flûte (The Flute Player)

after a painting by Paul Alfred de Curzon, painter, 1820-1895 (artist notes)
French (artist nationality)
painter and engraver (artist role)
Curzon, Paul Alfred de, 1820-1895 (original artist)
Recto: u. r.: (in brown ink) 84 ; top center: L'ARTISTE ; l. l.: (just beneath image) A. de Cunzon [sic] pinxt. ; bottom center: (just beneath image) Imp. Delamain et Sarrazin, 8, Git-le-Coeur, Paris. ; l. r.: (just beneath image) Bracquemond, Sc. ; bottom center: (title) LE JOUEUR DE FLÛTE ; l. r.: (in pencil) No. 8 ; verso: u. l.: (in pencil) Clark / 1 50 ; l. r.: (in pencil) No 8 ; l. l.: (in pencil) C575/207 (inscription)
Etching. (medium)
Good condition. Light adhesive tape stains at upper and lower corners of the left edge. (condition)
The Arthur H. Clark Company, Glendale, California, 18 Mar. 1937. (provenance)
Duct flute (instrument)
19th century (century)
Works of art - - Single Players (miller category)

The Dayton C. Miller collection in the Library of Congress, contains nearly 1,700 flutes and other wind instruments, statuary, iconography, books, music, trade catalogs, tutors, patents, and other materials mostly related to the flute. It includes both Western and non-Western examples of flutes from around the world, with at least 460 European and American instrument makers represented. Items in the collection date from the 16th to the 20th century.