Henri RIVIÈRE
1864 - 1951
Le Fossoyeur du cimetière Saint-Jean à Tréboul
1893
Plate 39 bis from the series Les Paysages bretons
Original wood engraving
223 × 345 mm, margins 346 × 521 mm
Fine impression on laid Japan paper, from an edition at twenty copies made in 1914, inscription in pencil in the lower margin on the verso Le cimetière de Perros corresponding to a confusion in the identification of the subject with the title of another woodcut by Rivière (Levasseur et Le Bohec 29), folds in the lower margin, slight stains in the margin, yellowing on the edges
Reference: Levasseur et Le Bohec 45