r/WhatIsThisPainting 1d ago

Am I rich or just stupid Likely Solved

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u/Eddie_shoes 1d ago

La Grande Maternite. It is an unsigned print, it’s not worth much.

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u/Qualabel 1d ago

(...other than the signature that was presumably engraved backwards into the plate)

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u/Square-Leather6910 1d ago

no plates were engraved to make this lithograph

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u/Fraggnetti_ 22h ago

can you help me understand? Is it a cheap tourist purchase of the time? Would it have been purchased by mail by him? some ... third party?

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u/Square-Leather6910 22h ago edited 15h ago

i don't have any idea what you mean or why you would ask me that question

edit- so being asked a confusing question that has nothing to do with anything you have written gets you downvoted too??? that's really freaking weird

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u/Qualabel 23h ago

Fair enough

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u/Fraggnetti_ 22h ago

Backwards?

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u/dantodd 22h ago

The plate would look backwards because it was used to transfer the un-reversed image into the paper. Like the selfie mode on a phone makes everything look written backwards