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• La Croix aux Saintes Femmes – The Holy Women’s Cross
  1894
  
  zincograph on thin wove paper
  
  image: 485 x 307 mm (19 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches)
  
  Morane 38

  This print, together with Le Chemin de la croix (Morane 41, see our catalogue no. 9), was conceived as part of an album of six lithographs announced in the third number of L’Ymagier in April 1895. However, this project was never completed. An edition of twenty-five of this print was printed on fine Italian laid paper (papier de riz).

• L’Annonciation - The Annunciation 1899
  
  hand-colored zincograph on thin buff-colored wove paper (backed on board), image with text
  
  400 x 547 mm (15 ¾ x 21 ½ inches)
  
  Boyle-Turner 139; Morane 57

• Les Cantilènes: Va tuer mon mari – Go and Kill my Husband 1892
  
  hand-colored zincograph on thin, buff-colored wove paper with wide margins,with the artist’s monogram stamp in the lower right corner
  
  330 x 220 mm (13 x 7 7/8 inches)
  
  Boyle-Turner 136; Morane 34

  Illustration for the poem La Femme perfide (The Disloyal Woman) from the section titled Cantilènes:
  Et si je suis ta soeur et femme de ton frère,
  Va tuer mon mari, tu pourrais bien me plaire.

• Les Cantilènes: Ils vinrent amenant le Saint Sacrement – They come bringing the Holy Sacrament 1892
  
  hand-colored zincograph on thin, buff-colored wove paper with wide margins; with the artist’s monogram stamp in the lower right
  
  330 x 200 mm (13 x 7 7/8 inches)
  
  Morane 36 Illustration for the poem La Vieille Femme de Berkeley from the section titled Histoires merveilleuses of Les Cantilènes: Son fils et sa fille nuitamment Vinrent, amenant le Saint Sacrement.

• Les Cantilènes: Il la prend par sa belle et longue chevelure – He takes her by her Beautiful Long Hair 1892
  
  hand-colored zincograph on thin wove paper trimmed to the image and mounted on heavy laid VAN GELDER ZONEN paper with partial fleur-de-lis watermark
  
  320 x 190 mm (12 5/8 x 7 ½ inches)
  Boyle-Turner 137 (this impression)
  
  Morane 35

• Le Chemin de la croix –The Way of the Cross 1895
  
  zincograph on thin brown wove paper
  
  image: 485 x 307 mm (19 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches)
  
  Morane 41

• Le Chemin de la croix – The Way of the Cross 1895
  
  zincograph on thin brown wove paper
  
  image: 485 x 307 mm (19 1/8 x 12 1/8 inches)
  
  Morane 41

• La Décollation de Saint Denis – The Beheading of Saint Denis late 1890s
  
  lithograph on thin wove paper
  
  328 x 271 mm (12 7/8 x 10 5/8 inches)
  

  Morane 58

  In terms of subject matter this print belongs to the group of religious images of the 1890s. However, it is technically very different. Executed in crayon rather than pen it seems to have been drawn on a lithographic stone.

• Mater Dolorosa ca. 1895
  
  zincograph on laid paper
  
  sheet 572 x 400 mm (22 ½ x 15 5/8 inches)
  
  Boyle-Turner 142 (this impression); Morane 45

  An impression from the deluxe edition on fine Italian laid paper with watermark Andrea Galvani Pordenone.

• Saint Georges – Saint George ca. 1895
  
  zincograph on thin buff-colored wove paper
  
  image 472 x 322 mm (22 ½ x 12 5/8 inches)
  
  Boyle-Turner 138; Morane 52

• Sainte Véronique et les instruments de la Passion – Saint Veronica with the Arma Christi ca. 1895
  
  zincograph on laid paper
  
  sheet 580 x 400 mm (22 ¾ x 15 ¾ inches)
  
  Morane 47

  An impression from the de luxe edition on fine Italian laid paper with watermark Andrea Galvani Pordenone.