print
- Museum number
- 2019,7015.366
- Title
- Object: Le coup de vent (The Gust of Wind)
- Description
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A landscape a with path through a hedge, trees at the left.
Etching
- Production date
- 1875
- Dimensions
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Height: 545 millimetres (Plate mark measurement)
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Height: 673 millimetres (Sheet measurement)
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Width: 450 millimetres (Plate mark measurement)
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Width: 507 millimetres (Sheet measurement)
- Curator's comments
- For two other impressions of Le coup de vent in The British Museum's collection, see:
1875,0612.426
2019.7015.345
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Foxing in the margins.
- Acquisition date
- 2019
- Acquisition notes
- A note in John Christian's files which records the purchase of five large Legros etchings. Bought from Hilary Gerrish at the London Original Print Fair, 20 April 2012.
His note states:
"Like the smaller prints I bought from Hilary two (three) years ago, these five large etchings come from Colhanghi's old stock although I am pretty certain I never saw them when I went through this material that Hilary had in Mason's Yard many years ago. He thinks Colnaghi must have had them directly from Legros himself but would this tally with the experimental nature of some of them (eg: what seems to be an early, unsigned state of the Coup de Vent (Bliss 110?) and that several have clearly been framed retaining the acid marks of old mounts."
The collector's mark on the back of the sheet is that if Thomas Glen Arthur (L.129).
Acquired unmounted by The British Museum. Annotated on the sheet:
"110vi I, 70?n VI 110 Le coup de vent by An Legros 07/83- Box 47. A 9547 In old A stock book."
For another impression of Le Coup de vent from the John Christian collection, see 2019.7015.345.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2019,7015.366
