Sale 2507, Part I - Old Master Through Modern Prints, May 2, 2019

183 c JAMES JACQUES TISSOT L’Été . Etching and drypoint on cream laid paper, 1878. 376x208 mm; 14 3 / 4 x8 3 / 8 inches, full margins. Edition of approximately 100. A superb, dark and early impression with strong contrasts. The sitter is Kathleen “Kate” Newton (1854- 1882), Tissot’s Irish muse and mistress from 1871-82. Tissot portrayed her as a personification of summer in this etching. Tragically, Newton contracted tuberculosis and, unable to fight the disease and witness Tissot’s mounting grief, overdosed on laudanum in November 1882. Tissot reportedly sat by her coffin for four days before giving her up for burial. Wentworth 43. [2,000/3,000] 184 c AUGUSTE RODIN La Ronde . Drypoint on Japan paper, 1883-84. 225x170 mm; 8 7 / 8 x6 3 / 4 inches, full margins. Second state (of 3). Signed in pencil, far lower right. A very good impression. Delteil 5. [4,000/6,000] 185  AUGUSTE RODIN Le Printemps . Drypoint on cream laid paper, 1882-88. 145x98 mm; 5 3 / 4 x3 7 / 8 inches, full margins. A superb, richly-inked impression. Delteil 4. [1,200/1,800] 185 184