(French actress)

 

Jean Hardy

  1883 - PRESENT

c. 1925  

color etching and aquatint 

17 7/8 x 14 3/4" platemark 

graphite, lower right 

9 from an edition of around 100 

text line in upper right image 

 

cream, wove BFK with additoinal "Ad Valcke" watermark. 

published 

Galerie Lutelia, Bd. Raspail, Paris 

5721 

$500.00 

There is little information found for this prolific "boudoir" artist. He was published by Galerie Lutetia in Paris and printed by "Ad Valcke." Our best guess is that this is a nom de Plume for another accomplished color aquatint artist from the turn of the century, since the work is too competent and available for him to have been so anonymous.