L'Etoile double.
Peint Par Faléro. Grave Par H. Eichens [with their signature monograms in plate, respectively lower left and right].
Entered according to act of congress in the year 1883 by M. Knoedler & Co. in the office of the Librarian of congress at Washington. [Second, very faded and almost invisible publication line of Goupil & Co. at bottom of plate.]
Engraving with etching and coloured aquatint, 710 x 395mm.
Translates as 'binary star', here represented by two entwined nude women floating in the night sky, with others in the background. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 8041] £420.00
Entered according to act of congress in the year 1883 by M. Knoedler & Co. in the office of the Librarian of congress at Washington. [Second, very faded and almost invisible publication line of Goupil & Co. at bottom of plate.]
Engraving with etching and coloured aquatint, 710 x 395mm.
Translates as 'binary star', here represented by two entwined nude women floating in the night sky, with others in the background. Luis Ricardo Faléro (1851 - 1896), born in Granada, Spain, settled in London in the 1880s, dying there in 1896 at the age of 45. He specialised in the female nude in a mythological or fantasy setting.
[Ref: 8041] £420.00