SUPPER TIME 1914 Charles Courtry - Léon Augustin Lhermitte ANTIQUE ETCHING

Original circa 1914 12 1/8 inch x 9 1/2 inch Etching titled SUPPER TIME

Rural domestic scene with family at table; mother feeding infant.

Signed in the plate.

Etched by Charles Jean Louis Courtry (1846 - 1897). A French nineteenth century etcher, Charles Courtry studied etching techniques in Paris under Francois Flameng and Leon Gaucherel. Courty is also known for copperplate engraving and illustration but during his career focused primarily on etchings, completing around 500. Most of them were interpretive of drawings by others artists.

After Léon Augustin Lhermitte (1844 - 1925). A French realist painter and etcher whose primary subject matter was rural scenes depicting peasants at work.

From “Modern Etching and Engraving: With Examples by Leading Artists” by Basil Hansard published as part works by Virtue & Co., 7 City Garden Row, City Road, London circa 1914

Image size 9 1/2 inch x 7 1/2 inch

The etching, on thick wove paper, is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.