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.
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