Armand Coussens Hand Colored Etching, Old Timer with his Donkey, Fine art

Description: Armand Coussens Hand Colored Etching. Old Timer with his Donkey THE EMBOSSED STAMP ON THE BOTTOM SAYS- PARIS MUSEUM -"MUSEEL LOUVRE CHLOOGRAPHIE" WHERE THE PRINT WAS BOUGHT. * There's a little foxing on the border Frame size 27-5/8x21-5/8" Image size 16-5/8x 12" The pictures are a big part of the description, please review carefully before purchasing this item. Please feel free to contact me with any questions. Buyer pays all shipping costs and insurance as per UPS standards. I do accept respectable offers. (* I Do Not Jack up my prices 100% so I can come down 50% I do price my artwork at a market selling price so please keep this in mind when throwing me an offer!! Please check out my other items Im offering on Ebay. If you enjoy the service I provide please leave Feedback. If you would like to Follow me on eBay click on sellers other items by my screen name (treasures seeking maniac) then click on the heart under my name. ARMAND COUSSENS (1881-1935) The Provenal painter and printmaker Armand Coussens was born in Saint-Ambroix (Gard) in 1881. He studied at the Beaux-Arts, Nmes, under Alexis Lahaye. Ambitious for his talented student, Lahaye encouraged Coussens to go to Paris to enter for the Prix de Rome. But the 7 years he spent in Paris from 1900 to 1907 were frustrating for the young artist, who spent his time studying the Impressionists and painting on the quais of the Seine, rather than following the stultifying course at the Beaux-Arts, Paris, which even at that date was still focussed on copying antique casts and intended to produce a new generation of history painters. Driven to despair by this academic approach, Coussens returned to Nmes, to become professor of drawing at the Beaux-Arts there. The nineteenth-century poet Thomas Hood, who trained as an engraver, wrote that etching "begins in a scratching and ends in a biting!" In this vividly expressive etching, Armand Coussens was certainly biting the hand that fed him. In the spirit of Daumier, it satirizes the very men on whom printmakers relied for their patronage, the "amateurs d'estampes". For such connoisseurs, print-collecting was a kind of competitive sport, in which refinement of taste was often tinged with snobbery and one-upmanship. Coussens, who began etching in 1912, had his first success in 1914 when he sold a plate to the master printer Vernant for a society of just such amateurs d'estampes. In 1919 the Muse du Luxembourg - where Coussens had spent so many days studying the Impressionist masters - bought eight etchings and a painting, as well as two watercolours by his wife, Jeanne Coussens, who had also studied under Alexis Lahaye. But this seems to have been the highwater mark of Coussens' career, and a sense of personal disappointment may lie behind the scratching and biting exhibited in Amateurs d'estampes. Although this etching and aquatint is in black only, Armand Coussens was an enthusiastic promoter of colour etchings, which were still regarded as inferior to black-and-white, despite the achievements of artists such as Raffalli in the previous generation. He died in Nmes in 1935.

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Location: Trenton, New Jersey

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