27  Sheep  in  one  Night

Loups au Carnage, Les. Wolves attacking a herd of sheep and goats in hilly landscape. Toned wood engraving by Jules Huyot (Toulouse 1841 – Paris after 1882) after Jules Gélibert (Bagnères-de-Bigorre/Hautes-Pyrénées 1834 – Capbreton/Landes 1916). C. 1870. 22 x 32 cm.

Thieme-Becker XIII, 365; AKL LI, 198 f.: “(Gélibert produces) almost exclusively realistic animal and hunting depictions which concentrate on the chief subject”. – Pupil of his father, the animal painter Paul G., whose field he favoured together with his brother Gaston and continued including hunting. Showed at the Paris Salon since 1859, then in Brussels + Berlin, too.
Offer no. 6,149 / EUR  118. (c. US$ 164.) + shipping

– – The same in an impression of 1873 without tone plate on lighter paper paginated “37”, though without text on the back, too. 22.5 x 31.8 cm.
Offer no. 11,222 / EUR  91. (c. US$ 127.) + shipping

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(Mr. Z. B., September 12, 2003)

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