"Beethoven" by A. F. Cosyns, Belgian, (1875-after 1950) POR on cream wove paper watermarked

on cream wove paper watermarked umbria Italia with a crown

signed & inscribed in pencil

Adolf Dehn

There is a hint of Whistler and Roussel in the cropping and frontality of this composition

"Beethoven" by A. F. Cosyns, Belgian, (1875-after 1950) POR on cream wove paper watermarkedWoodcut, ca. 1920's 30's, ed. 100, signed & numbered in pencil, on warm white wove J Perrigo paper, with large margins, some soiling & repaired edge tears. A large diagonal crease to the lower left corner & a horizontal crease at left center edge just touching the subject's hair. Antoine Francois Cosyns was born in Malines, Belgium, and worked primarily as an illustrator supplying drawings and prints for deluxe editions of books in France during the