Original Jean-Gabriel Domergue Gravure, 1951

Artist: Jean-Gabriel Domergue (1889–1962)
Title: Nu sur l’herbe (Nude on the Grass)
Year / Publication: 1951
Medium: Original gravure (etching/aquatint)
Portfolio: Les Oraisons amoureuses (Jeanne-Aurélie Grivolin)
Publisher: Éditions du Lierre, Paris
Printer: Atelier Manuel Robbe
Paper: Rives vélin
Sheet Size: ~28 × 22.5 cm (≈ 11 × 8.9 in)
Condition: Excellent—kept in a dark folder; colors and tones beautifully preserved

A true collectible, this original Jean-Gabriel Domergue gravure from 1951 is among the artist’s finest depictions of the female figure. Created as an etching/aquatint for the portfolio Les Oraisons amoureuses, it was printed at the famed Atelier Manuel Robbe on Rives vélin and published by Éditions du Lierre. The sheet’s rich blacks and delicate plate tones remain remarkably fresh thanks to careful storage away from light.

Graceful, intimate, and quintessentially Domergue, Nu sur l’herbe captures the artist’s celebrated elegance with a refined line and soft atmospherics, an ideal original vintage etching for collectors of mid-20th-century French prints.