[Trade Card]. by DELÂTRE, Auguste and Eugène. Richard RANFT.

Drypoint etching on laid paper (150 × 106 mm), cut close to platemark. And another, earlier, etched card for Eugène Delâtre (140 × 76 mm).

A highly evocative trade card for one the most important art presses in Paris. Auguste Delâtre’s long career began in Paris and he opened his first printing house in 1850. He spent several years in London, establishing the engraving section of the South Kensington Museum. Returning to Paris definitively, he was joined in business by his son Eugène. He printed plates by Braquemond, Haden, Jacque, Jacquemart, Méryon, Daubigny, Millet, Rops, Rousseau, and Whistler.