Decorative Panel With Nesting Birds, by Leon Gaucherel, Fr., (1816-1886) Silkscreen but traveled even more broadly

but traveled even more broadly

Possoz worked in Paris through most of the 1930's

on thin cream laid J WHATMAN watermarked paper

3/8 on bottom

in fine condition save for a few spots of pale foxing to the margins and to the original folder with an essay on the artist by Elisabeth Whitmore

Decorative Panel With Nesting Birds, by Leon Gaucherel, Fr., (1816-1886) Silkscreen but traveled even more broadlyEtching, 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