Description

Auguste Lançon, also known as André Lançon (1836-1887)

André Lançon : An uhlan

Original etching, 1875

Print on laid paper. Original etching by André Lançon (Saint-Claude, 1836 – Paris, 1887) published by Cadart, 1876, in L’Illustration nouvelle (Cadart et Luce, then Veuve Cadart) ( Paris, 1868 – 1881 ). Proof before the address of Cadart.

Dimensions : the sheet : H. 470 x W. 310 mm – With all margins. at the plate : H. 325 x W. 245 mm

Condition : small accidents in the margins. Slight folds in the right and left margins.

Auguste Lançon, also known as André Lançon (1836-1885), is a French painter, engraver and sculptor. “His talent in full development, was going to give itself free career in the etching. He used his drawings to illustrate “La troisième invasion” by Eugène Veron (July 1870 – March 1871). This is undoubtedly the most striking and gloomy commentary on the war. Goya’s name was mentioned when a first suite of seventeen etchings dedicated to the Franco-German campaign was exhibited at the 1873 Salon. The connoisseurs were not mistaken. And, without trying to draw a parallel between Lançon’s etchings and the plates of the Spanish master’s war disasters, we can affirm that our engraver, with more precision, reaches the dramatic power of Goya”. Excerpts from La Gazette des beaux-arts of 1920, by Charles Léger. Source