Émile Bernard (1868-1941) Virgin and Child. Lottery ticket. 1891. Woodcut. 136 x 220. Morane 25. Very fine proof on thin laid paper, colored in pale yellow-green and parma watercolors. Median oblique fold. Small smudges on verso. Stamp R. T. This print was included in the exhibition Before and after Gauguin, Atlanta, 2008. This subject bears the inscription engraved in reverse: "Loterie pour un povre" ("Lottery for a pauper"). Miserere Nobis" at the top. "This time, it was to help a poor wretch from Saint-Briac, Jean Challoux, in whose fate his sister Madeleine had taken a particular interest that summer of 1891. (D. Morane, Emile Bernard, catalog raisonné de l'œuvre gravé, Musée de Pont-Aven, Bibliothèque d'Art et d'Archéologie Jacques Doucet, Paris, 2000, p. 40). "The print run of this lottery ticket seems to have been smaller than that of the previous two. Bernard will try to place some with Schuffenecker, but it seems that Madeleine did most of the selling." (D. Morane, op. cit., p. 43).