Marguerite Dreyfus

Marguerite Dreyfus, known as Rita, born Marguerite Angèle Bouchet on March 21, 1879 in Paris and died on November 6, 1942 in the same city, was a French printmaker.

Biography

Marguerite Bouchet married Pierre Dreyfus, a bookbinder, in Paris in 1904. She exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français starting in 1900, winning an honorable mention in 1903 and the Prix Jules-Robert in 1905. She was responsible for the engravings of many banknotes, and was one of the first woodcut engravers to work for the Institut Monétaire.

B123a face
B123a face
Algeria
B123a (
  • MK2a
  • P-77a
) 5 Francs Muslim Girl
Veiled Algerian woman at Port d'Algers, Amirauté Lighhouse
  • Printer: BdF
  • 7/28/1933
  • 127 x 88mm
  • Sig 4
  • Verification number at upper center

  • Watermark: Moorish Woman's head
(F)
(B)
B137b face
B137b face
Algeria
B137b (
  • MK5b
  • P-94b
) 5 Francs Muslim Girl
Veiled Algerian woman at Port d'Algers, Amirauté Lighhouse
  • 10/2/1944
  • 98 x 60mm
  • Sig 2
(F)
(B)
B136b face
B136b face
French Indochina
B136b (
  • KM146b
  • P-49b
) 5 Piastres Woman
Peacock, Butterflies
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1926)
  • 180 x 90mm
  • Buff paper

  • Watermark: Profile of Man's head

(F)
(B)
B138d face
B138d face
French Indochina
B138d (
  • KM154d
  • P-51d
) 100 Piastre Dupleix
Incense Burner; Bust of Joseph-François Dupleix
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1936-39)
  • 214 x 146mm
  • Sig 7

  • Watermark: Profile of Man's head
(F)
B143b face
B143b face
French Indochina
B143b (
  • KM152b
  • P-56b
) 20 Piastres Athena with Oak Crown
Khmer Temple
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1936-39)
  • 160 x 85mm
  • Sig 7

  • Watermark: Mercury
(F)
(B)
B144 face
B144 face
French Indochina
B144 (
  • KM157
  • P-57
) 500 Piastre Education: Woman, Child & Globe
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1939-)
  • 190 x 103mm
  • Sig 7

  • Watermark: Mercury
(F)
(B)
B165a face
B165a face
French Indochina
B165a (
  • KM153
  • P-81a
) 20 Piastre Athena with Oak Crown
Khmer Temple
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1949)
  • 160 x 85mm
  • Sig 9b

  • Watermark: Mercury
(F)
(B)
B166b face
B166b face
French Indochina
B166b (
  • KM156
  • P-82b
) 100 Piastre Mercury
Elephants
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1949-54)
  • 175 x 89mm
  • Sig 9b
  • New Lao text

  • Watermark: Profile of Man's head
(F)
(B)
B144 face
B144 face
French Indochina
B144 (
  • KM157
  • P-57
) 500 Piastre Woman and Child examining Globe
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1939-)
  • 190 x 103mm
  • Sig 7
(F)
(B)
B110a face
B110a face
French Somaliland
B110a (
  • KM611
  • P-7A
) 20 Francs
Multicolor, denomination in red. Woman; Peacock, Butterflies
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1941)
  • Sig 7

  • Microprint
  • Watermark: Profile of Man's head

(F)
(B)
B112as face
B112as face
French Somaliland
B112as (
  • KM613
  • P-8s
) 100 Francs Woman with wreath
Statue at Angkor
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1928-1938)
  • Sig 7
  • Specimen

  • Watermark: Profile of Man's head

(F)
B114b face
B114b face
French Somaliland
B114b (
  • KM616b
  • P-9b
) 500 Francs Allegory of France
France and Local Woman, Ships
  • Printer: BdF
  • 3/8/1938
  • Sig 7

  • Watermark: Head of Polynesian woman

(F)
  • Rita SC
(B)
B126g face
B126g face
French West Africa
B126g (
  • LK201
  • P-42
) 1000 Francs Woman and Jugs, Gazelles
Woman in Native Costume of Upper-Guinea
  • Printer: BdF
  • 9/18/1950
  • Sig 8

  • Watermark: Woman with headscarf
(F)
(B)
B103b face
B103b face
Lebanon
B103b (
  • MK629
  • P-8A
) 1 Livre
Arabic text; Jounieh Bay, Beirut Lebanon
  • Printer: BdF
  • 11/1/1930
  • 162 x 100mm
  • Sig 2
  • Blue “GRAND-LIBAN” on back

  • Watermark: Horse head

(F+B)
B104a face
B104a face
Lebanon
B104a (
  • MK624
  • P-4
) 5 Livres
Arabic text; Krak des Chevaliers Castle in Syria
  • Printer: BdF
  • 4/15/1925
  • 182 x 110mm
  • Sig 1
  • Red “GRAND-LIBAN” on back

  • Watermark: Horse head
(F+B)
(F)
  • Rita SC
(B)
B221b face
B221b face
Lebanon
B221b (
  • MK685
  • P-51a
) 25 Livres Libanaise
Ancient arches from Great Mosque of Baalbek; Head of lion from frieze on Temple of Jupiter in Baalbek
  • Printer: BdF
  • 8/1/1950
  • 194 x 116mm
  • Sig 3

  • Watermark: Horse head

(F+B)
  • Rita SC
(F)
(B)
B313d face
B313d face
New Caledonia
B313d (
  • KM412d
  • P-36b
) 5 Francs Marianne de Walhain
Mauve, Brown on Lt. Green.
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1926)
  • 149 x 93mm
  • Sig 7

  • Watermark: Profile of Man's head

(F)
(B)
B314a face
B314a face
New Caledonia
B314a (
  • KM413a
  • P-37b
) 20 Francs Woman
Peacock, Butterflies
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1929)
  • Sig 5

  • Watermark: Profile of Man's head

(F)
(B)
B315e face
B315e face
New Caledonia
B315e (
  • KM415e
  • P-42e
) 100 Francs Woman with wreath
Statue at Angkor
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1963)
  • Sig 11

  • Watermark: Profile of Man's head

(F)
B202a face
B202a face
New Hebrides
B202a (
  • KM702
  • P-6
) 20 Francs Woman
Peacock, Butterflies
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1941)
  • Sig 5

  • Watermark: Profile of Man's head

(F)
(B)
B234a face
B234a face
Romania
B234a (
  • P-53a
) 2000 Lei Seated Woman, Woman Feeding Child
Farmers, Oil Refinery
  • Printer: Banca Naţională a României
  • 11/18/1941

  • Watermark: Trajen
(F+B)
  • Rita SC
(F)
(B)
B302a face
B302a face
Serbia
B302a (
  • P-23
) 500 Dinars
  • Printer: Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes
  • 5/1/1941

  • Watermark: Head of King Alexander I
(F)
  • Rita SC
(B)
B310e face
B310e face
Tahiti
B310e (
  • KM513e
  • P-14d
) 100 Francs Woman with wreath
Statue at Angkor
  • Printer: BdF
  • ND (1961-65)
  • Sig 11

  • Watermark: Profile of Man's head

(F)
B207d face
B207d face
Tunisia
B207d (
  • MK403
  • P-8d
) 5 Francs Muslim Girl
Veiled Algerian woman at Port d'Algers
  • Printer: BdF
  • 1/27/1941
  • Sig 2

  • Watermark: Moorish Woman's head

(F)
(B)
B216a face
B216a face
Tunisia
B216a (
  • MK404a
  • P-15
) 5 Francs Muslim Girl
Veiled Algerian woman at Port d'Algers, Amirauté Lighhouse
  • 2/8/1944
  • Sig 5

(F)
(B)
B102a face
B102a face
Yugoslavia
B102a (
  • P-27b
) 100 Dinares Seated allegorical woman
  • Printer: Institute for Manufacturing Banknotes
  • 12/1/1929
  • Sig 1

  • Watermark: Head of Miloš Obrenović in profile

(F)
  • Rita SC
(B)
B971b face
B971b face
France
B971b (
  • F.32.41
  • P-95b
) 500 Francs Peace
Allegory of Peace with olive branch, Agriculture
  • Printer: BdF
  • 10/1/1942
  • 195 x 115mm
  • Sig 10

  • Watermark: Profile of woman
(F)
  • Rita SC
(B)
B978a face
B978a face
France
B978a (
  • F.40.6
  • P-102
) 1000 Francs Demeter
Statue of Demeter holding Hercules as a child; Bronze of Mercury
  • Printer: BdF
  • 9/3/1942
  • 190 x 115mm
  • Sig 10

  • Watermark: Hermes
(F)
  • Rita SC
(B)
B964c face
B964c face
France
B964c (
  • F.46.8
  • P-97c
) 5000 Francs Victoire
Woman wearing olive wreath holding statue of winged Victory
  • Printer: BdF
  • 7/20/1939
  • 230 x 125mm
  • Intaglio
  • Sig 12
  • Signature title “LE CAISSIER PRINCIPAL”

  • Watermark: Head of woman and branch

(F)
  • Rita SC
(B)
B964c face
B964c face
France
B964c (
  • F.46.8
  • P-97c
) 5000 Francs Victoire
Woman wearing olive wreath holding statue of winged Victory
  • Printer: BdF
  • 7/20/1939
  • 230 x 125mm
  • Intaglio
  • Sig 12

  • Watermark: Head of woman and branch

(F)
  • Rita SC
(B)
B979a face
B979a face
France
B979a (
  • F.47.59
  • P-103e
) 5000 Francs Empire Française
France with natives of the French community, Ports of the Basque coast, France and Rabat, Morocco
  • Printer: BdF
  • 3/20/1947
  • 208 x 115mm
  • Sig 15

  • Watermark: Profiles of French, African and Asian women
(F)
(B)

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