La petite blanchisseuse (B. 40)

The color lithographs by Pierre Bonnard and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (see lot 25) from the Sampliner Estate represent two high points of late nineteenth century printmaking. Both leading proponents of the Peintures-graveurs movement, the artists' concerned themselves with the making of the print-matrix and with the proofing of the prints. Both were commissioned to make prints by Ambroise Vollard, the most important publisher of the time, and were assisted by Auguste Clot, acknowledged to be the master printer of the period.