After Félicien ROPS Album du Gaulois, frontispiece, cliché Comté process, sheet 33,5 x 26 cm (Exteens 1143), nice proof on cardboard, provenance : Léon Bournisien (Lugt 3425) ; a proof from the book is attached. Also included after the same artist, L'Ondine, frontispiece, reproduction by Yves et Barret for a revue des villes d'eaux, 1872, 20 x 13 cm, various margins (E. 1144), a collection of 5 proofs on thin paper, one proof on blue paper, one proof on green paper. Provenance: Auguste Poulet-Malassis (Lugt 163 on 2 prints) and Léon Bournisien (Lugt 3425). Set of 7 pieces

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