Decorative Panel With Nesting Birds, by Leon Gaucherel, Fr., (1816-1886) Silkscreen 13 x 10-1/2

13 x 10-1/2

3/8 on bottom

Lazzell's short staccato strokes with stumping for atmosphere convey an energy charged landscape of layered

personalized

on thin cream laid J WHATMAN watermarked paper

Decorative Panel With Nesting Birds, by Leon Gaucherel, Fr., (1816-1886) Silkscreen 13 x 10-1/2Etching, after 1858, Ed. unknown, 9 3 4 x 5 1 2, signed in the plate bottom center below the ruled border, and possibly signed in pencil at lower right, on a thin white chine colle affixed to a cream laid support sheet with a partial HAL watermark, 11 7 8 x 10 1 2. There is scattered pale foxing to the full margins. Gaucherel focused mostly on reproductive etching after 1858, and this would seem to be a commissioned plate for a publication or