Artist: Emile-Charles Dameron (French, 1848-1908)
Medium: Antique Hand pulled copper plate etching on wove paper after the original by master etcher A. Masse.
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower left.
Dimensions: Image Size 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches.
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 16 x 18 inches.
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
The original which is in the Luxembourg and is a most truthful representation of a scene very common in and about the french forests. The woodcutters construct picturesque huts for themselves, where they live with their families during the felling season in tolerable comfort. Firewood, at least, is abundant, and the huts are easily repaired when they are not perfectly rain proof.Many of them are inhabited by the makers of wooden shoes, which in France are produced in vast quantities for the peasants. The use of tobacco is perhaps the only innovation that makes this wood life essentially different from what it must have been in the days of Virgil.