Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine, “The Chronicler”, c.1778

Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine (aka Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gordaine) (1745–1830)

“The Chronicler”, c.1778 (c.1774–c.1789).

Etching on fine Japan paper with narrow margins around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 3.4 x 3 cm; (plate) 2.6 x 2.2cm.

Hillemacher 23 (Frédéric Hillemacher 1877, “Catalogue des estampes qui composent l'oeuvre de Jean-Pierre Norblin”, Paris, cat. no. 37).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “Seated man reading a book in a dark interior lit by the window on the left c.1774/89 Etching” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1853-0312-310).

See also the description of this print at the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the Rijksmuseum: https://collections.artsmia.org/art/105122/the-chronicler-jean-pierre-norblin-de-la-gourdaine; https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200238288.

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed impression with narrow margins laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. The sheet is in an excellent/museum quality condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains. 

I am selling this exceptionally small treasure of an etching—around the size of a thumbprint—by one of the most important artists of the Enlightenment in Poland for the total cost of AU$302 (approximately US$196.03, EUR 168.29 or GBP 145.32), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

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Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling, “Death Mask of Napoleon”, c.1840, after Luigi Calamatta and the Antommarchi cast

Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling (1812–1863)

“Death Mask of Napoleon”—Napoleon I, Emperor of France (aka Napoleon Bonaparte; Napoleon) (1769–1821)—c.1840, engraving after Luigi Calamatta’s [1801–1869] engraving executed in 1834 of the Antommarchi cast—the title for the cast made by Napoleon’s physician, François Carlo Antommarchi (1780–1838) and/or Francis Burton.

Engraving on buff wove paper with a small margin around the image borderline and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 21 x 16.1cm; (image borderline) 16.8 x 13.8cm.

The British Museum offers the following description of Luigi Calamatta’s engraving which Lazarus Gottlieb Sichling’s engraving copies: “Death mask of Napoleon, after the so-called Antommarchi cast; facing front, crowned with laurel wreath, with insignia of the Legion of Honour around the neck, and sword placed in front of it; in decorative frame” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1848-1125-347).

Note that the Harvard Art Museums offer reproductions of both Calamatta and Sichling’s engravings for comparison: https://harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/247612.

Lettered in plate: (within the image borderline at lower centre) “NAPOLEON”; (below the image borderline at lower right) “Sichling sculps”.

Condition: a strong and well-printed (near faultless) impression. The sheet has a small margin around the image borderline and laid upon a sheet of millennium quality washi paper providing wide margins. Beyond minor age-toning, the sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or stains.

I am selling this finely executed engraving expressing an aura of gravitas appropriate to the subject of a death mask, for the total cost of AU$264 (approximately US$172.04, EUR 147.06 or GBP 126.94), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

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Salvator Rosa, “Solider Carrying a Cane, Striding Toward the Left”, c.1656/7

Salvator Rosa (1615–1673)

“Solider Carrying a Cane, Striding Toward the Left” (TIB title) (aka “Soldier with Plumed Hat and Pike on his Shoulder”), c.1656/7, from the series, “Figurine”. Bellini & Wallace (1990) advise that the drawing for this etching, executed in pen and brown ink with brown wash and traces of black chalk, is in the Teylers Museum in Haarlem (inv. E 16).

Etching and drypoint on laid paper (partial watermark) with wide margins. Based on the deckle edges of the sheet and the placement of the image, this is possibly the full sheet when published.

Size: (sheet) 24.3 x 20.8cm; (plate) 15.1 x 19.6cm.

Inscribed in plate with the artist’s monogram: (lower right) “SR”.

State ii (of ii) Note that there is only one impression known of the first state.

TIB 4512.041 [B.33 [280]) S2 (Paolo Bellini & Richard W Wallace [eds.] 1990, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Italian Masters of the Seventeenth Century”, vol. 45 [Commentary], New York, Abaris Books, pp. 386–87, cat. no. [4512].041); Wallace 21.II (Richard W Wallace 1979, “The Etchings of Salvator Rosa”, Princeton, Princeton University Press, p. 152, cat. no. 21/II).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “Figurina; a standing warrior in a plumed hat, holding a staff over his shoulder and gesturing to right with his outstretched left arm. c.1656-1657” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_W-7-22 [BM inv. no. W,7.22]).

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression. The sheet has wide margins around the platemark and is in an excellent (near pristine) condition for its considerable age with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains or signs of handling.

I am selling this marvellous etching (with drypoint) by Salvator Rosa—note how the artist has used the upward sweep of the landscape on the right to visually echo/amplify the movement of the figure’s outstretched arm—for the total cost of AU$328 (approximately US$213.50, EUR 182.35 or GBP 157.51), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

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Alphonse Leroy, “Study of a Woman”, 1860, after Pierre-Paul Prud'hon

Alphonse Leroy (aka Alphonse Alexandre Leroy) (1820–1902)

“Study of a Woman” (aka “Étude de Femme”), 1860, after a drawing by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (aka Pierre Paul Prudhon) (1758-1823), plate 25 (XXV) from the series of 31 plates commissioned under the patronage of Count Alfred Émilien O'Hara van Nieuwerkerke (1811–1892) after old master drawings transcribed as engravings to be used as drawing lesson studies (“Cours de Dessin”) in “Collection de dessins originaux de grands maîtres gravés en fac-simile par Alphonse Leroy; avec texte explicatif par MM. F. Reiset et F. Villot, conservateurs du Musée Imperial du Louvre”, printed by L Eudes (fl.1876–1888) and published in 1857–1859 (for plates 1–20) and 1860 (for plates 21 to 31) by Dusacq & Cie (fl.1864–1869) in Paris.

Crayon-manner engraving with aquatint and plate tone, printed in a grey-blue coloured ink on chine collé (China paper) on a sheet of blue wove paper as published.

Size: (sheet) 53.6 x 34.3cm; (chine collé) 49 x 30.3 cm; (image borderline) 43.7 x 26.7 cm.

Lettered and numbered in plate above the image borderline: (centre) “COURS DE DESSIN/ FAC-SIMILE DES GRANDS MAÎTRES.”; (right) “Pl. XXV”.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Dessiné par Prudhon.”; (centre) “Eudes Imp, Paris/ Prudhon (Pierre Paul) Peintre Francais, Né á Cluny (Seine et Oise) en 1760. Mort en 1823./ DUSACO & C^ie. 14 Boulevart Poissonniere, Paris”; (right) Gravè par Alphonse Leroy.”

Guermonprez & Lothe 68 (Paul Guermonprez & José Lothe 2007, “Alphonse Leroy Graveur 1820–1902”, Paris, Héritage Architecturel, p. 160, cat. no. 68).

Condition: a well-printed impression in an excellent (near pristine) condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this large crayon-manner engraving designed as a drawing lesson study, for AU$256 (approximately US$166.63, EUR 142.32 or GBP 122.94), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

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Paul Lafond, “Charles Jacque”, 1894

Paul Lafond (1847–1918) (aka Paul-Jean-Marie Lafond; Jean Marie Paul Lafond; Paul Jean-Marie Lafond)—Painter, etcher and curator at the Musée de Pau (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG247411)

“Charles Jacque”, 1894, etched portrait of a key artist of the Barbizon School, Charles Jacque (aka Charles Émile Jacque) (1813–1894), published in Paris in 1894 in the art periodical, “L'Artiste”, between pages 320 and 321 (see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k486091v/f331.double).

Note that Léopold Massard (aka Jean Marie Raphaël Léopold Massard; Léopold Massart) (1812–1889) also made an etching of the same portrait of Charles Jacque with minor differences in 1894. See Massard’s version reproduced in the blog “Adventures in the Print Trade” (June 20, 2019): https://adventuresintheprinttrade.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-pre-impressionists-charles-jacque.html.

Etching with plate tone on fine laid paper (Van Gelder Zonen watermark) with full margins as published.

Size: (sheet) 27 x 17.9cm; (plate [soft mark]) 16 x 11.9cm; (image borderline) 13.7 x 10.2cm

Lettered in plate: (upper centre) “L'ARTISTE”; (lower centre) “CHARLES JACQUE”.

Condition: a strong and well-printed (near faultless) impression with full margins as published. Beyond faint age-toning at the edges, the sheet is in a near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains or signs of handling.

I am selling this historically important portrait of one of the luminaries of the Barbizon School for the total cost of AU$258 (approximately US$168, EUR 143.79 or GBP 123.90), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

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