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

Tuesday, 5 August 2025

Léopold Flameng, “Ingres at the Age of 24”, 1869, after Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Léopold Flameng (aka Léopold Joseph Flameng) (1831–1911)

“Ingres at the Age of 24” (aka “Ingres à l'âge de 24 ans”), 1869, after the 1804 self-portrait in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780–1867), printed by Alfred Salmon (fl.1863–1894) and published in Paris in the art periodical, “Gazette des Beaux-Arts”, 1 December 1871, between pages 478 and 179 (see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k203093f/f564.double).

Etching with pale plate tone on cream wove paper, trimmed around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 20.4 x 16.5cm; (soft platemark) 19.7 x 15.9 cm; (image borderline) 16.5 x 13.6cm.

Inscribed in plate within the image borderline: (upper left) “EFF. J.A. INGRES. P.^OR”; (lower left) “LÉOP. FLAMENG. DEL & SC 69”; (upper right) “F.^it P^ais 1804”.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Gazette des Beaux-Arts.”; (centre) “INGRES À L'ÂGE DE 24 ANS”; (right) “Imp. A. Salmon, Paris.”

Beraldi 350 (Henri Beraldi 1887, “Les Graveurs du dix-neuvième siècle”, vol. 6, Paris, L. Conquet, p. 127, cat. no. 350); IFF153 ((Jean Adhémar & Jacques Lethève 1953, “Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800: Doré-Folk”, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes, vol. 7, p. 165, cat. no. 11 [see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5489211f/f590]).

See also the description of this print offered by the British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1983-U-2726.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression with small margins around the image borderline and laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper providing wide margins. The sheet is in a near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or stains.

I am selling this remarkably fine portrait of Ingres as a young man, for the total cost of AU$233 (approximately US$150.56, EUR 130.38 or GBP 113.40), including express mail shipping worldwide. Import duties, if any, are the responsibility of the buyer.

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