Dans les Abruzzes

Dans les Abruzzes, taken from Eaux-Fortes Modernes: Originales et Inédites, the second volume in a series produced by the Société des Aquafortistes.

Etching, 1864, made by: Alexandre Segé, printed by: Auguste Delâtre and published by: Cadart & Luquet

Signed and lettered with title, plate number and production and publication detail including addresses for, respectively, the printer and publisher, "...Rue St Jacques, 303.../...79, Rue de Richelieu", all on plate.

From a volume (550 x 375mm) for the second year of the Société des Aquafortistes, September 1863-August 1864, containing sixty prints by various artists including Martial, Manet, Jongkind and Bracquemond (Paris: A Cadart et Luquet, Éditeurs, 1864); with artists and titles at front, month by month, and introduction by Jules Janin.

A follower of the Realist movement and the Barbizon school, Ségé magnified the Beauceron countryside in his paintings and drawings, sharing his attraction for the vast expanses and rural work and exploring the relationship between man and nature.

Landscape painter and etcher, born in Paris in 1818, died in Coubron (Seine-et-Oise) on October 27, 1885, he was a student of Léon Cogniet and Camille Flers. He made his debut at the Salon in 1844 and was named Knight of the Legion of Honor in 1874. His parents owned property in Bondy and he lived in Coubron from 1878 where he was elected town councilor. The same year, he won a medal at the Universal Exhibition.

For biographies of the members and a list of their work with the Sociéte, see Janine Bailly-Herzberg, 'L'Eau-Forte de Peintre au Dix-Neuvième Siècle: La Société des Aquafortistes (1862-1867), Leonce Laget, Paris, 1972 (2 vols).