Etude de Jeune Fille. by Charles Dulac, 1865-1898

Charles Dulac, 1865-1898
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Etude de Jeune Fille.

Original lithograph in colours. c. 1895. Signed in pencil. Dedicated by Dulac to the critic Roger Miles -' à Mon Roger Miles Bien amicalement'. Also inscribed by Dulac: ' Deux exemplaires (essai en couleurs)' - two impressions only trial proof in colour. Extremely rare.
Colours: bistre brown over pale beige and very light yellow.

Extremely fine tonal impression with soft unfaded colours. On stiff cream wove paper. Excellent condition, showing the full 'pressure' of the stone. Full margins. Sheet: 24 ¾ x 19 1/4ins. Image overall: 12 ½ x 10 5/8ins (318x270mm).

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Dulac was a Symbolist, inspired by Redon and by Puvis de Chavannes, he was also a great admirer of the Nabis absorbing many of the ideas of Denis and the whole circle at the Académie Julian. He was a painter but above all he was an extremely fine lithographer. He used soft transparent line drawn in translucent colours and worked over pale glowing background tones to create images which float over the page with a special poetic beauty. Tragically he died very young.

Probably Dulac's best known prints are his sets of landscape compositions 'Le Cantique des Créatures' , but he also drew marvellous poetic figure studies. 'Etude de Jeune Fille' above is one of his most beautiful prints, and one of his rarest as no formal edition exists (The dedicated proof above is inscribed '2 exemplaires'). In its ethereal line and soft evanescent tones it is the epitome of the poetry of the Symbolist imagery of the 1890's.