Alfred Elsen - Het Bospad -ets op japans papier 1882- - Sold

Beautiful, historical etching on Japanese paper, signed and dated 1882 in the plate lower right. Signed again in pencil at the bottom. In very good condition and with new frame. Image 17 x 24 cm. Sheet size 30 x 40 cm. Frame 36 x 46 cm.
Elsen was a student of Edward Dujardin and Polydore Beaufaux at the Academy in Antwerp. Around 1874 he was a paying private pupil with the landscape painter Frans Lamorinière. A close friendship developed with Lamorinière, so much so that in Lamorinière's last years (when he was blind) Elsen took a large part of the care for him. Elsen painted landscapes in realistic style with motifs that were mainly found in the Antwerp area. Later work featured a freer style with a better sense of rendering the light. He was a member of the Aquafortistes Anversois group and provided etchings for the association's albums. Elsen lived at 7 Court Street (c. 1894) and at 123 Kunstlaan (c. 1907). Edouard de Jans painted his portrait posthumously (1919; now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp).