Prints and Principles

Most of the recent posts give details about individual prints and earlier posts discuss some of the subtle principles guiding artists in making images meaningful and memorable. For prints that are unsold, click "Items still available for sale" below. All other prints are no longer available. My contact email is oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com and my Instagram username is @printsandprinciples. I have created a separate blog to show my own work: https://printsandprinciplesjamesbrown.blogspot.com

Saturday, 15 August 2020

Adolphe Appian’s etching, “Entrée du Village d’Artemare (Ain),” 1880

Adolphe Appian (1818–1898)

“Entrée du Village d’Artemare (Ain)” (aka “Falu Vége”), 1880, plate 8 to the volume of 124 plates showcasing four years of “L'Eau-Forte” (1878-81) published by Alfred Cadart (aka Veuve Cadart; Célonie Sophie [Veuve] Cadart) (1828–1875) in Paris in 1881 (see the description of the frontispiece to this publication at the British Museum:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1915-0105-15-96).

Etching and drypoint with pale plate tone on cream laid paper with wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 36.3 x 51.2 cm; (plate) 19 x 25.3 cm; (image borderline) 12.4 x 20 cm.

Numbered on plate above the image borderline: (right) “8.”

Inscribed within the image borderline: (upper-left corner) “APPIAN 1880”.

Lettered on plate below the image borderline: (left) “A. Appian,pinx. et sc.”; (centre) “ENTREÉ DU VILLAGE D’ARTEMARE (Ain)” (note that the problematic acute accent [accent aigu] on the last letter “é” rather than the more usual placement in the word [“Entrée”] is as shown on plate); (right) “Vve A,Cadart,Edit.Imp.56,Bard Haussmann, Paris.”

State ii (of iii) before Cadart’s address is deleted in state iii.

Curtis & Prouté 58ii (Atherton Cutiis & Paul Prouté 1968, “Adolphe Appian son Oeuvre Gravé et Lithographié”, Paris, Paul Prouté, cat. no. 58), Jennings 54 (Herbert H Jennings 1925, “Print Collector’s Quarterly,” vol. 12, no. 1, cat. no. 54).

See a description of this print at the British Museum and the Blanton Museum of Art:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1915-0105-15-104;

http://collection.blantonmuseum.org/objects-1/info/4171.

Condition: a richly inked and faultless museum-quality impression in near pristine condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, losses, abrasions, stains, foxing and only minor signs of handling) with generously wide margins.

I am selling this exceptionally beautiful and poetically evocative print, for the total cost of AU$337 (currently US$241.80/EUR204.23/GBP184.69 at the time of this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested this graphically strong etching by a major artist closely connected to the Barbizon School, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

This print has been sold