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Victor de La Croix, the wood thief Gendarme surprises a farmer committing wood theft, until the 19th century wood was mainly needed as fuel, the unauthorised removal of wood in the forest was punished in numerous European countries under the forestry criminal law with sometimes draconian penalties, fine ink drawing in camaieu technique in sepia on paper, 1st half 19th cent, inconspicuously signed "V. Delacroix" lower left, on the reverse fragmentary legible French label "... signé a gauche [signed left] Victor Delacroix", framed behind glass and passe-partout with brass frame label "De La Croix, Victor", passe-partout section approx. 17 x 16 cm. Artist information: also Victor Delacroix, Belgian genre and glass painter (1802 Brussels to 1868), honoured with the Grand Prix of the Ghent Academy in 1829, exhibited 1829-51 in Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Bénézit, Monogrammlexikon Nagler, Wurzbach, Immerzeel and Internet.

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Victor de La Croix, the wood thief Gendarme surprises a farmer committing wood theft, until the 19th century wood was mainly needed as fuel, the unauthorised removal of wood in the forest was punished in numerous European countries under the forestry criminal law with sometimes draconian penalties, fine ink drawing in camaieu technique in sepia on paper, 1st half 19th cent, inconspicuously signed "V. Delacroix" lower left, on the reverse fragmentary legible French label "... signé a gauche [signed left] Victor Delacroix", framed behind glass and passe-partout with brass frame label "De La Croix, Victor", passe-partout section approx. 17 x 16 cm. Artist information: also Victor Delacroix, Belgian genre and glass painter (1802 Brussels to 1868), honoured with the Grand Prix of the Ghent Academy in 1829, exhibited 1829-51 in Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent, source: Thieme-Becker, Saur "Bio-Bibliographisches Künstlerlexikon", Bénézit, Monogrammlexikon Nagler, Wurzbach, Immerzeel and Internet.

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Starting price 90 EUR

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