Charles
Louis Kratke (aka Charles Louis Kratké) (1848–1921)
“The Cottage”, c.1880,
after John Constable’s (1776–1837) painting in the Musée du Louvre (as inscribed in the plate).
Interestingly, Alfred
Louis Brunet-Debaines (1845–1939) also made an etching of the same painting
by Constable in 1873; see https://www.nwmissouri.edu/archives/art/deluce-family/collected-works/dc198.htm.
Etching printed
in burnt umber ink on heavy wove paper, trimmed with a small margin within the
platemark.
Size: (sheet) 56.5
x 42.5cm; (image borderline) 49.3 x 40cm.
Lettered in
plate below the image borderline: (centre) “THE COTTAGE/ Etched by L. Kratke
after the picture by John Constable/ in the Musée du Louvre”.
Condition: a
richly inked and near faultless impression trimmed within the platemark with
small margins around the image borderline. The sheet is in a very good
condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains.
I am selling
this huge and superb etching translating the colours, tones and textures of
Constable's painting into an insightfully orchestrated web of lines, for the
total cost of AU$302 (currently US$197.43/ EUR185.83/ GBP154.88 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. Note that payment is in Australian dollars (AU$302) as this is my
currency.
If you are
interested in purchasing this richly worked and very beautiful etching, please
contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal
invoice to make the payment easy.
Hello! There appears to be some confusion with the work this etching reproduces. The Louvre catalogues this as Le Cottage by F W Watts. Perhaps at the time the etching was made, the painting in the Louvre collection was attributed to Constable?
ReplyDeleteI took a look at the Louvre inventory for this painting (https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010064913) and I can see what you mean. After reading the provenance for the painting there seems like a bit of skullduggery going on surrounding its sale by the fictitious Marquis de La Rocheb. I’d now love to know why both Kratke and Brunet-Debaines inscribed on their prints that the design is based on a painting by Constable.
ReplyDeleteI guess it is plausible that at the time of the plates' creation the painting was still attributed to Constable, perhaps as the Louvre mentions, for reasons of added value.
ReplyDeleteI think both the original painting by F W Watts and the reproductive prints, especially this one, are lovely in themselves regardless of the misattribution; and the anecdote adds an interesting art history value to these prints captioned as reproducing a painting by Constable.