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Title: L'Enfant au
Biscuit
Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Category: Impressionism
Medium: Lithograph
Framed: Yes
Height: 24 10/16"
Width: 18 1/2"
c. 1898-99
Original lithograph printed in eight colors (black, grey, rose, salmon,
green, ochre, blue, white) on Ingres d’Arches laid paper bearing the “MBM”
watermark.
Signed on the stone lin the margin lower left Renoir.
A superbly printed proof impression of the only state, very rare in this the
final version with the two additional colors (the blue to the eyes and the
white to the face, hat and background), and the stone signature, added by
the printer Clot, apart from the edition of 100 printed in six colors.
Commisioned by Ambroise Vollard for the third (unissued) Album d’Estampes
Originales de la Galerie Vollard, Paris; printed by Auguste Clot.
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