L'Audacieux et la Timide – From Les Dames Galantes is an original b/w etching on laid ivory-colored paper, by Émile Boilvin. Excellent condition, with fresh impressions, this is a rare specimen before letter (I.F.F. 56). On the lower margin ''d.ap. Ed. Beaumont / E. Boilvin''. From the volume “Les sept Discours touchant les Dames galantes du Sieur de Brantôme”, text by Pierre Bourdeilles de Brantôme, published by Jouaust, Paris, 1882, this is one of ten original b/w etchings d’après the Edouard Beaumont edition: original drawings by Edouard de Beaumont, engraved by Boilvin. Limited edition, 220 copies. Image Dimensions: 13.5 x 9 cm Émile Boilvin (Metz 1845 - Paris, 1899) Emile Boilvin is a 19th century French painter and printmaker, a pupil of Isidore Pils and Pierre Edmond Alexandre Hédouin. He exhibited at the Salon of Painting and Sculpture, in the ''French Engravers'' section, from 1865. He won the ''Grand Prix'' at the Universal Exhibition of 1889. This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no official proof of authenticity, however it is well documented in design history. I take full responsibility for any authenticity issues arising from misattribution