Signed and numbered 'no.3'. Edition of 100.

Provenance: Roger Marx (1859-1913), (L2229).

Literature:   Delteil, vol. 16, no. 82.

Fine impression of the second and final state. The plate has been destroyed.

This landscape by Raffaëlli depicts an industrial view of a suburb of Paris. Joris-Karl Huysmans and Edgar Degas supported him and the latter invited him to participate at the Expositions des Impressionistes of 1880 and 1881.

As stated in the exhibition catalogue of his colour prints at Devambez, 1907, Rafaëlli was among the very first one to take an interest in the renewal of the colour print technique:

'Ce fut en 1889 que je commençais des essais de gravures en couleurs. Ils ne me donnèrent que peu de satisfaction. Je m'enquis alors d'un graveur auquel je pusse demander conseil [...] je me rendis compte, de cette façon, que cet art était alors complètement abandonné et que j'étais le seul à m'en préoccuper'. (Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Juillet-aout 1924, pp. 192-193).

Several artists followed him in this way, among them Henri Guérard, Mary Cassat or Eugène Delâtre.

In the later years of his life, he concentrated almost exclusively on colour printmaking.