La pluie sur la plage.

Burin, 14,3 x 12,2 cm, wove paper 28,1 x 22,5 cm, monogrammed in the plate at bottom right, pencil signed and numb. 36/50 in the lower margin.

Under passe-partout.

Elegant couple walking on a rainy beach. Laboureur (Nantes 1877-1943) was a French painter, designer, engraver, watercolourist, lithographer, and illustrator. He was born to a prosperous bourgeois family. In 1895, he went to Paris and, following his father's wishes, enrolled at a law school. He stayed for only a short time before deciding to pursue a career in the fine arts instead. He studied at the Académie Julia, where he learned engraving from Auguste-Louis Lepère.