Great ARMAND QUEYROY 1800s Original Etching “Boys Conversing” SIGNED Framed COA$259.00
Great ARMAND QUEYROY 1800s Original Etching “Boys Conversing” SIGNED Framed COA
$259.00
Artist: Armand Queyroy (Mathurin Louis Armand Queyroy) (French, 1830-1893)
Title: Corner of a Street in Chinon
Medium: Original hand pulled copper plate etching on laid paper.
Year: 1876
Signature: Signed in the plate, lower left.
Condition: Excellent
Dimensions: Image Size 5 3/4 x 9 inches
Framed Dimensions: Approximately 15 x 18 inches
Framing: This piece has been professionally matted and framed using all new materials.
Two boys standing at a street corner, talking; horse collars and saddles piled on the left; relief representing two standing figures and a kneeling one at the corner.
Mathurin Louis Armand Queyroy (Armand Queyroy) was a French aquafortist engraver. From 1852 to 1856, Armand Queyroy was a pupil of Évariste-Vital Luminais from 1852 to 1856. In 1857, at the age of 27, after his marriage to Julie Watelet, daughter of a notary, from a large family in the city, he moved to Bourbonnais Moulins . The couple had two children: Gustave, who will become an officer, and Marie. In 1862 he was appointed curator of the municipal museum of Moulins . He also participated in the birth of the Vendome Museum, his hometown. Close to critic Philippe Burty , engraver confirmed, he is a member of the Society of Aquafortists co-founded by Alfred Cadart : he produced, among other things, six prints for L’Illustration nouvelle (1868-1881). Queyroy was also an art collector.
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