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Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Gustave Greux, “Fleurs et Fruits”, 1873, after Jan van Huysum

Gustave Greux (aka Gustave Marie Greux) (1838–1919)

“Fleurs et Fruits” (Flowers and Fruit), 1873, after Jan van Huysum’s (1682–1749) 1735 painting in the Alte Pinakothek, Munich (see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_van_Huysum_002.jpg), printed by Alfred Salmon (fl.1863–1894) and published in Paris in the art periodical, “Gazette des Beaux-Arts”, 1st March, 1873, between pages 266 and 267.

Etching and drypoint on buff laid paper with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 21.9 x 16.3 cm; (plate) 18.4 x 14.8 cm; (image borderline) 16.3 x 13.3 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “JAN VAN HUYSUM PINX./ Gazette des Beaux-Arts.”; (centre) “FLEURS ET FRUITS”; (right) “GREUX SC./ Imp. A. Salmon, Paris.”

Beraldi (not numbered but listed with Greux’s prints from 1872–73) (Henri Béraldi 1888, “Les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle: Guide de l'Amateur d'Estampes Modernes: GAVARNI–GUÉRARD”, vol. 7, Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, p.230, see “Estampes Diverses” for 1872–73); IFF 4–2 (Jean Adhémar & Jacques Lethève 1960, “Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800: GAVARRET–GUILLARD”, vol. 9, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, p. 375, cat. no. 4–2 [see: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k54892064/f387]).

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression in a near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or stains, trimmed with a small margin and laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper.

I am selling this superbly rich impression of Greux’s etching after Jan van Huysum’s flower-piece with fruit and insects—often included in such arrangement to project the notion of transience (vanitas)—for the total cost of AU$207 (approximately US$136.01, EUR 115.41 or GBP 99.16), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this sensitively executed and exceptionally beautiful etching, 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 














Tuesday, 1 July 2025

Eugène Le Roux, “Course de Chevaux”, c.1849–62, after Théodore Géricault

Eugène Le Roux (aka Eugène Leroux) (1811–1863)

“Course de Chevaux” (“Horse Race”) (aka “Entrance to the Arena”; “Course de Chevaux Libres à Rome”; “Free Horse Racing in Rome”), c.1848, plate 30 from the series of 144 plates (Volume 1 , 1ère Année, 2ème livraison [Plates 1–72]), “Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes”, printed by Bertauts (fl.1830s–1880) in Paris, after Théodore Géricault’s (aka Jean Louis André Théodore Géricault) (1791–1824) painting, “Course de Chevaux Libres à Rome”, in the Musée du Louvre, Paris (https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010059217 [R.F. 2042]).

Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille offers the following description of one of Géricault’s studies for the painting, “Course de Chevaux Libres à Rome”: (transl.) “It's February in Rome, in the middle of Carnival. Today marks the traditional free-range horse race, the highlight of the festivities. Grooms come to show off their finest stallions, watched by the city's notables. The horses are let loose along the Corso, Rome's main thoroughfare, which then takes on the appearance of an arena” (https://pba.lille.fr/Collections/Chefs-d-OEuvre/Peintures-XVI-sup-e-sup-XXI-sup-e-sup-siecles/Course-de-chevaux-libres-a-Rome).

Lithograph on buff chine collé on heavy wove paper with wide margins as published and blind-stamped with the mark of “Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes” (Lugt 36a) below the image borderline at centre.

Size: (sheet) 31.5 x 44.8 cm; (chine collé) 19 x 25.5cm.

Numbered in plate above the image borderline: (upper right) “30”.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Géricault, pinx.”; (centre) “Imp. Bertauts, Paris.”; (right) “E. Le Roux, lith/ Collection de Mr. Marcille.”

Blind stamped: (in oval at lower centre) “LES ARTISTES/ ANCIENS/ ET MODERNES”.

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “Plate 30: in the foreground, Roman slaves restraining horses before their release into the hippodrome, with classical buildings and crowds visible in the background; after Théodore Géricault
Lithograph on buff chine collé” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1936-0302-14-31).

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression with generously wide margins (as published) in a near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains, or signs of handling.

I am selling this dramatic and romantic lithograph showing stallions being restrained before being freed into the Via del Corso—a central thoroughfare in Rome connecting Piazza del Popolo and Piazza Venezia—that I understand had been configured at the time into an arena during the February Carnival, for the total cost of AU$244 (approximately US$160.60, EUR 136.27 or GBP 116.80), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

If you are interested in purchasing this beautifully executed lithograph after Géricault, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.