Manuel Robbe

This is an original color aquatint etching by French artist Manuel Robbe.  This image is titled: Maquillage, (making up)  It was created and printed in  1904.  It has the French publishers blindstamp lower right corner of the sheet.  This impression is hand signed in pencil lower right border.  The image measures 16 7/16X12 7/8 inches.  The image appears in the Perussaux catalog as image number 130.

This is an original color aquatint and etching by French artist Manuel Robbe.  The title is Place Pigalle, it was created and printed in 1925 in an edition of 200 published by L'Estampe Moderne.  The image measures 11 1/4X15 3/8 inches.  Hand signed in pencil lower right border.  Place Pigalle is in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, in Montmartre.

This is a fine original color aquatint etching by French artist Manuel Robbe.  This image of a sleeping nude in the landscape is hand signed in pencil lower right and numbered as 33 lower left border.  The image measures 11 1/4X15 1/2 inches.  Printed on a medium weight Arches laid paper.

A fine color aquatint etching by French artist Manuel Robbe.  The title Naiade, was taken as The Water Nymph, after a painting by Henner.  This image was created and printed in 1912.  It was published by Georges Petit in Paris in an edition of 200.  The image which is pencil signed measures 14 7/8X23 3/8 inches.  The publishers copyright information in the upper left corner just above the image.  "Manuel Robbe (1872-1936) was a brilliant printmaker who masted the aquatint technique. He was born in Paris, shortly after the Franco-Prussian War. He soon began studies at the Lycees Condorcet with Louis Legrand. In the early 1890’s Robbe enrolled at the Academie Julian and later, at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux- Arts. Here, he learned the intricacies of etching and aquatint from master etcher Eugene Delatre. He exhibited regularly at the Salons of Societe des Artistes Francais and in 1900, he received a bronze medal at the World’s Fair for his contribution to printmaking."