Damville (Normandy) 1875 - 1963 Puteaux
 

Le petit manège, rue Caulaincourt, 1905

The Little Merry-go-Round on the Rue Caulaincourt

Aquatint in nine colors

469 x 583 mm.; 18 1/2 x 23 inches

Signed and numbered "38"

With the blindstamp of Villon’s publisher, Sagot éditeur Paris

Provenance:

Collection of Jacqueline and Bernard Gheerbrant, founders of the Librairie La Hune at

St. Germain-des-Près in Paris.

Reference:

Auberty & Pérussaux no. 77

Ginestet & Pouillon E.135

Notes:

1. In using nine different plates, this is one of Villon’s most complex and also most spectacular color aquatints.

2. This scene is quite near the home of Villon and his brother, Marcel Duchamp (at 71 rue Caulaincourt), and looking up toward the north side of the Butte Montmartre. This address is just down the street from the apartment of Toulouse-Lautrec (died in 1901).