Family

Family is a beautiful etching, realized by the French painter and engraver Maurice Asselin , datable to the first half of the 20 ^th century.

Hand-signed in pencil on the rear.

Good conditions, with very smal stain on the whitish frame.

Maurice Asselin is famous especially for his female figures, among which numerous nudes, often caught in scenes of maternity, in which he reached rare levels of delicacy, but also for the wonderful landscapes of Brittany , a region of France, to him very dear, where he has often stayed. He also traveled to Italy, in Anticoli-Corrado, a famous town of artists and models in the countryside of the region Lazio, near Rome. After the Italian experience, Asselin also traveled to London, where he exhibited his works in solo shows.

The interior scene represents a family while doing housework, skillfully created, the etching characterized by quick and short strokes defined in a well-balanced composition, expressing the typical style of this French painter.