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

Thursday, 18 May 2023

Alfred Alexandre Delauney’s etching with drypoint, “Landscape with Cattle and Approaching Storm”, 1872

Alfred Alexandre Delauney (1830–1894)

“Landscape with Cattle and Approaching Storm” (aka “Landscape with Cows Along a Stream”; “Landschap met koeien langs beek” [Rijksmuseum title]), 1872

Etching and drypoint on chine collé on heavy wove paper with wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 34.9 x 43.8 cm; (plate) 21.8 x 32.6 cm; (image borderline) 20.6 x 31.6 cm.

Inscribed in within the image borderline: (lower left corner) “Delauney. 1872”.

The Rijksmuseum and the Baltimore Museum of Art offer descriptions of this print: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.103094; https://collection.artbma.org/objects/5300/landscape-with-cattle-and-approaching-storm.

See also the description of this print before the artist’s signature and date are inscribed: https://collection.artbma.org/objects/71698/cattle-by-a-stream#.

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed impression with generously wide margins in near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this poetically beautiful etching of a nineteenth century rural scene featuring cows beside a stream with light sparkling on trees before a storm, for the total cost of AU$239 (currently US$159.75/EUR144.54/GBP127.24 at the time of this listing) including 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 marvellous etching that (to my eyes) captures the spirit of the time in which it was executed—viz. a fascination with the effects of light on surfaces (Impressionism); a love of rural subject matter (Barbizon School); a free use of the etching needle (Etching Revival)—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