Alfred Stevens original etching "Etude"
Medium: original etching. Published in 1878 by Gazette des Beaux Arts. Catalogue reference Sanchez & Seydoux 1878-5. Image size: 7 x 4 1/8 inches (180 x 104 mm) on cream laid paper. Signed in the plate, not by hand.
The Gazette des Beaux Arts was a Parisian art revue founded in 1859. From a print collector's point of view, it is much treasured for the original etchings and lithographs published during the 19th Century and early years of the 20th Century.