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Saturday 15 May 2021

Pieter Dupont’s engraving, “Cheval de Labour”, 1902

Pieter Dupont (1870–1911)

Cheval de Labour” (aka “Rustend ploegpaard”; “Resting plough horse”), 1902, printed by Alfred Porcabeuf (aka Alfred Louis Porcabeuf) (fl. 1895–1946?) and published in Paris in the periodical, “Gazette des Beaux-Arts”, in February 1903.

In 1898 Dupont executed a similar print in reverse, “Ploegpaard aan de oevers der Seine” (Plough horse on the banks of the Seine), featuring an almost identical resting horse in an arched position; see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1919-1111-8. Although the position of the horse is similar, the subject of plough horses was explored numerous times by Dupont; see for example, “L'Outillage” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1919-1111-15);  “l'Attelage” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1908-1014-333) and “Bête de labeur” (http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.573826).  

Engraving on fine wove (imitation parchment) paper backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 18.2 x 26.5 cm; (plate [soft]) 16 x 23.1[?] cm; (image borderline) 13.7 x 20.6 cm.

Lettered on plate below the image borderline: (left) “Gazette des Beaux-Arts”; (centre) P. Dupont del. et sc./ CHEVAL DE LABOUR”; (right) “Imp. A Porcabeuf, Paris.”

WF Dupont 92 (WF Dupont 1947, “Pieter Dupont, een Nederlandsch graveur: zijn leven en werken”, Oisterwijk, Uitgeverij Oisterwijk, p. 151, cat. no. 92).

The Rijksmuseum offers the following description of this print:

(Transl.) “A horse is bent over a plough. Under the belly of the horse with a view of a harrow and a ploughing pair of horses” (http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.584849).

Condition: a richly inked, near faultless impression showing no sign of wear to the printing plate and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper. The sheet is in a near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this exquisitely executed engraving by one of the leading and influential Dutch printmakers at the turn of the 20th century who sought to revive engraving in the Netherlands following the etching revival in France, Britain and the United States, for AU$243 (currently US$189.18/EUR155.75/GBP134.15 at the time of posting this print) 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 in purchasing this ravishingly beautiful engraving, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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