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."

This is an original etching with aquatint and drypoint  by French artist Manuel Robbe.  The title is: Nu Se Coffant, ca.  Nude Combing her Hair, circa 1906.  This etching is hand signed in pencil upper right within the image.  This is a rare black and white impression.  The image measures 19 1/2X13 inches. 

This is an original etching with aquatint by French artist Manuel Robbe.  The title is: Dans les Rochers,  created and printed in 1910.  The image measures 17 7/8X23 inches, printed on a medium weight laid type sheet with crown watermark.  Blind stamped lower left border.  A fine impressionistic view of an older couple watching the Fishing fleet set sail at sunrise.

This is a fine color aquatint and etching by French artist Manuel Robbe, this impressionistic image is titled: Clichy, created and printed in 1910 in an edition of 100.  This image measures 23 1/2X14 1/2 inches. Pencil signed lower right.  This image is printed on a medium weight laid type Arches watermarked sheet, with publishers blind stamp lower left corner.  This impression is numbered as 79.

This is a fine color aquatint etching by French artist Manuel Robbe.  This image is titled: Les Liseuses, created and printed in  1907 in an edition of 100.  Merrill Chase catalog number 54.  The image measures 19X14 1/2 inches, printed on an Arches watermarked laid type sheet.  A beautiful impressionist interior view of two women reading.  Very fine condition.