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Show 296 Salon de 1861: Combat de cerfs. (lithograph). (Brun: "eine 60cm hohe Lithographie"; review by Phillipe Burty in the Gazette des Beaux-I,p. 177). Haute futaie. (En Foreti. 63 x 50cm. (lithograph). collaboration with Millet. (Delteil #24, Beraldi. very rare folio). (New York Public Library: en foret ou Haute futaiel (Delteil, Estampe: #24: "1 er Etat. Avant toute lettre. De toute rarete. 2e--Avec la lettre. On lit sous la composition a G. : 'Karl Bodmer pinx. et lith., et a D.: Imp. Bertauts r. Cadet 11 Paris. Tres rare. Collection Alfred Beurdeley. Ventes: K. Bodmer (1894), 1er etat, 34 fr. (avec une lith. de Bodmer, Au Bas-Brieau); G. Hediard (1904), 2e etat, 27 fr. Dans cette importante lithographie, ie bucheron seul, a ete execute par Millet; le paysage est I'oeuvre de Karl Bodmer"; Delteil, L'Artiste: #85: En foret. Dans un sentier borde de grands arbres se voit un bucheron; cette figure a ete executee par J.-F. Millet. Belle piece. H. 630mm, I. 500. 1er etat, avant toute lettre; 2e, avec la lettre." It was Bertaut who published the important suite of lithographs, la Haute Futaie. that is described in Delteil's L'Estampe. But a plate of Bodmer's, published in Maaazin pittoresque. v. 23 (1855), p. 401, Interieur de Foret. is remarkably similar to the lithograph En foret. Within this 1855 illustration a figure of a hunter, accompanied by a dog, stalks two deer in the left background. The image is the reverse of the Millet collaboration, but the figure, definitely not by Millet, crouches forward, in a way which seems to mimic that of Millet's later figure. Whether the Millet-Bodmer lithograph was actually executed earlier than the publishing date of 1861 (Bodmer collaborated with Millet in 1852 for the Daniel Boone illustrations) and, thus, Bodmer could use it as a reference for the 1855 En foret--or whether the reverse is true and Millet had this 1855 to use as a reference-is unknown. 1863 Paris World Exhibition: honorable mention. (Brun, Orr) Salon de 1863: (Orr p.p. 366-367: this was the last time American work was exhibited by Bodmer in the Salons). Dindons sauvages. watercolor. (Salon de 1863). (Lang, Brun, Delorme) (review by Paul Mantz in Gazette des Beaus-Arts. XV, 46: "Dans un genre moins eleve\ nous devons ceter les vigoureux paysages Americans de M. Karl Bodmer, aussi habile a se |
