GAILLARD Claude-Ferdinand (Paris 1834 † 1887). Mona Lisa. 1886-1887. Burin after Léonard DE VINCI. Plate made for the Chalcographie du Louvre, left unfinished at the death of the artist. State proof on japanese, the modelling of the face and clothing very advanced, the hands and the landscape of the background still in draft. Ref : Beraldi n°83 (undescribed state). I.F.F. n°80. All margins. 63.5 x 45 cm (sheet). Condition B (dusty margins, handling folds and rubbing marks; trace of fold along the right edge). Beraldi is very enthusiastic about this engraving : "Great anxiety in the whole world of printmaking. What will Gaillard's Mona Lisa be? How will he conceive it? ...] The plate moves forward. Already collectors are registering for the states, and print dealers are preparing to throw themselves on the proofs before the letter, which Chalcographie, alma mater, will sell them at a more than moderate price. Whatever the result Gaillard wanted to achieve, the work will be most curious".