Caption
Publisher's prospectus for La Parisienne fin XIXe siecle by Henri Jourdain, print, Right a woman with a hat with an advertising column in the background. Left a man and a woman on the Place de la Concorde. Above a view of the Seine with Notre-Dame in the background., printmaker: Henri Jourdain, Paris, 1874 - 1931, Henri Jourdain, printmaker, paper, drypoint, intaglio printmaking technique, drypoint with plate tone, height 144 mm x width 198 mm, ornamental fountain, poster-pillar, Place de la Concorde, Notre-Dame (Paris), A detailed ink drawing shows a street scene with a woman in profile on the right wearing a high-necked dress with puffed sleeves and a hat decorated with feathers, her hair styled in an updo and her hand resting at her waist; to the left two figures stand near a lamppost, one wearing a top hat and the other a skirted outfit and hat, with a bucket beside them and reflections on wet pavement; in the midground there is a decorative cylindrical kiosk with posters and a nearby lamppost, and in the distant background a riverbank with a bridge and the silhouette of a large cathedral or complex of buildings; the composition is rendered in fine cross-hatched lines and shading on a light paper surface.
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Photo12/Liszt Collection
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LZT26B28_209
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