"Bois de Finge" by Alexandre Calame, Swiss, (1810-1864) POR

"Bois de Finge" by Alexandre Calame, Swiss, (1810-1864) PORLithograph, ca. 1851, edition unknown, one of twenty landscape subjects from "Sites Varies de Paysages par Calame", published in Paris by Francois Delarue, 1846 50, 16 x 11 15 16, signed in the stone with the scratched signature at lower left, title and publication text in the margin below image, on cool white wove paper. Calame was the premiere Swiss master of landscape lithography in the 19th century. His formidable gifts as a prolific painter and

A strong and lyrical deco era nude

9-3/4 x 16-3/8

on thick warm white wove Arches paper

With the original title sheet from the issue

tape stain to bottom corners verso only

Kistler to produce a complex high quality color lithograph using the commerical offset lithographic process

Originally a successful illustrator and then a printmaker

on thin cream simili-japan paper

and a small discrete compression to the surface at top right of image border

with at least 3/4 margins

and was a graphic designer

crisp impression of this print