Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833-1914) after Gustave... Lot 318

Félix Bracquemond (French, 1833-1914) after Gustave Moreau (French, 1826-1898) The Great Snake, 1886 The Monkey and the Cat, 1886 The Goddess of Discord, 1886 The man who runs after fortune, 1886 Suite of four etchings. Outlined in pencil on the lower right, drystamps "MP, HZ, RI, RD"; captioned: "October 1st 1886, London. Published by Boussod Valadon Cie, successors of Goupil Cie, 116 117 New Bond Street W and 9 rue Chaptal Paris. Copyright registered." Height 29,5 Width 19,8 cm. Height. 30 Width. 20,4 cm. Height 26.2 Width 21 cm. Height 31,7 Width 20,2 cm. In their gilded wooden frames (Height 50,5 Width 44,5 cm.) When Antoni Roux (1833-1914) commissioned a suite of the Fables of the Fountain from the symbolist painter Gustave Moreau, he did not imagine the success that this undertaking would meet. A first suite of 25 sheets was produced for the 1881 exhibition. In 1885-1886, the patron commissioned the engraver Félix Bracquemond to interpret some of his masterpieces, which were exhibited in the Goupil gallery in Paris, then at the 1887 Salon.