Jean François Millet’s etching, “Peasant with a Wheelbarrow”, 1855

Jean François Millet (1814–1875)

“Peasant with a Wheelbarrow” (aka “Le Paysan rentrant du Fumier”; “Peasant Returning from the Manure Heap”), 1855

Etching in brown ink with pale plate-tone on thin Japan paper.

Size: (sheet) 24 x 20 cm, (plate) 16.3 x 13.3 cm

Inscribed in plate at lower right: “J. F. Millet”.

State: iv (of iv) with the address of Delâtre removed

Delteil 11.IV; Melot 11.4

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “Peasant man returning cart of dung to barn. 1855/ Etching” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1931-0721-46).

The Christchurch Art Gallery (Te Puna o Waiwhetū) offers the following insights regarding this print: “Jean-François Millet’s signature depictions of peasant workers recognised a disappearing way of life that also echoed his own past: he was among the many rural labourers who left the French countryside. His artistic ability was first recognised in his teenage years while he was labouring on his parents’ freehold farm in Gruchy, a tiny hamlet on the Normandy coast. He was then apprenticed to a painter in nearby Cherbourg in 1833 and left for Paris four years later. This etching was based on paintings he made between 1848 and 1852” (https://christchurchartgallery.org.nz/collection/79-228/jean-francois-millet/le-paysan-rentrant-du-fumier).

See also the descriptions of this print offered by the Rijksmuseum and the National Gallery of Art: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.409064; https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.9193.html.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression with pencil notations by previous collectors and remnants of mounting tape (verso); otherwise in an excellent/museum quality condition with no tears, folds, abrasions, stains or foxing.

I am selling this remarkably fine impression of Jean François Millet’s iconic vision of everyday rural life in France before the industrial age for AU$3000 (currently US$2057.91/EUR1972.35/GBP1699.39 at the time of posting this listing) including Express Mail 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 print by one of the leading artists of the Barbizon School, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Albrecht Altdorfer’s woodcut, “The Flagellation of Christ”, c1513

Albrecht Altdorfer (1482/5–1538)

“The Flagellation of Christ” (aka “Flagellation” [TIB] “La Flagellation” [Bartsch]; “Geseling van Christus” [Rijksmuseum]), c1513 (c1506–1538), twenty-third plate from the series of forty prints, “Fall and Redemption of Man” (aka “De val en verlossing van de mensheid”; “The Fall and Salvation of Mankind Through the Life and Passion of Christ”).

Woodcut on fine laid paper, trimmed with a narrow margin around the image borderline.

Size: (sheet) 7.4 x 5.1 cm; (image borderline) 7.2 x 4.8 cm.

Signed in plate with the artist’s monogram at lower right on column: “AA”.

Lifetime impression based on the quality of line showing very few signs of wear to the printing plate.

TIB 14(8).23(74) (Robert A Koch 1980, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Early German Masters”, vol., 14, New York, Abaris Books, p. 129, cat. no. 23 [74]); New Hollstein (German) w.23 (Ursula Mielke [comp.] 1997, “The New Hollstein: German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts 1400–1700: Albrecht and Erhard Altdorfer”, Rotterdam, Sound and Vision Interactive, p. 106, cat. no. w.23); Dodgson 23 (Campbell Dodgson 1911, “Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings of the British Museum”, vol. 2, London, British Museum, p. 225, cat. no. 23).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “The Flagellation; Christ tied to a column at r, two henchmen beating him with scourges. c.1513/
Woodcut” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1895-0122-330).

See also the description of this print offered by the Rijksmuseum and the MET: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.30749 and https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/429640.

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed impression, trimmed with a narrow margin around the image borderline. Beyond remnants of hinges verso and minor areas of thinning, the sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, losses, stains or foxing.

I am selling this small woodcut that is a superb lifetime impression (based on the quality of the line showing few signs of wear to the printing plate) by one of the Nuremberg Little Masters (Kleinmeister) for AU$516 in total (currently US$351.23/EUR336.60/GBP290.47 at the time of posting 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 tiny woodcut masterwork from the Renaissance, I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

This print has been sold 

Franz Edmund Weirotter’s etching, “Stone Sarcophagus and Ancient Architectural Fragments”, 1767

Franz Edmund Weirotter (aka Franz Edmund Weyrotter) (1733–1771)

“Stone Sarcophagus and Ancient Architectural Fragments” (aka “Steinsarkophag und antike Architekturbruchstűcke”), 1767, plate 2 from the series, “Fifth Series of Different Regions of Old Buildings consists of 24 Sheets” (aka “Fűnfte Folge von Unterschiedlichen Gegenden Alter Gebäude bestehand in 24 Blat”).

Etching on laid paper trimmed around the image borderline with narrow margins.

Size: (sheet) 6.8 x 17.8 cm; (image borderline) 6.6 x 17.6 cm.

Numbered in plate outside the image borderline: (left) “2”.

State i (of i); possibly a lifetime impression (based on the quality of line showing no sign of wear to the printing plate).

Winterberg 175 (Thilo Winterberg 1998, “Franz Edmund Weirotter, der Landschaftsradierer”, Heidelberg, Galeria Palatina, p. 376, cat. no. 175).

Thilo Winterberg (1998) offers the following description of this print: (transl.) “In the left part of the picture there is a rough antique stone sarcophagus next to the fragments of different parts of the building in the middle of the picture. On the right in the foreground two men are sitting on a block of rock and are talking. On the right edge in the distance, you can see a round temple” (p. 376).

Note that the British Museum describes the two men in the foreground at right as “shepherds” (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1854-1020-951), but to my eyes, the figures look like infantry men as the left figure has a plumed hat and the right figure seems to be holding a spear with a tasselled point rather than a shepherd’s crook.  

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed impression showing no sign of wear to the printing plate, trimmed unevenly around the image borderline with small margins. The sheet is in a near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this very fine impression in near faultless condition executed by one of the major Austrian printmakers of 18^th century, for the total cost of AU$232 (currently US$158.18/EUR151.71/GBP130.69 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 romantic vision of ancient ruins—note the memento mori (Latin for "Remember that you must die”) symbolism posed by the overgrown massive stone sarcophagus at left and its possible link to the figures (soldiers?) at right—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Unidentified French Orientalist’s two drawings of figures, c1830

Unidentified French Orientalist from the circle of Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) working in the area of Morocco and Algeria in the early 1800s—note that the dealer/collector from whom I purchased these drawings advised me that they were executed c1830.

(left) “Bearded Man in a Djellaba Holding Prayer Beads and a Staff”, c1830, pencil and watercolour on wove paper backed with a support sheet, 18 x 12.2 cm.

(right) “Berber Musician Playing the Traditional Flute (Taghanimt)”, c1830, pencil and watercolour heightened with white gouache on tan wove paper backed with a support sheet, 18.5 x 11.2 cm.

Condition: both sheets are in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains, foxing or signs of handling and laid upon separate sheets of millennium quality washi paper providing wide margins.

I am selling this pair of skilfully executed pencil and watercolour studies for the total price of AU$446 for the pair (currently US$304.08/EUR291.65/GBP251.25 at the time of posting 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 these very beautiful drawings, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Louis Joseph Masquelier’s etching, “Monument à la Gloire du Roi et de la France”, c1775, after Louis Touzé

Louis Joseph Masquelier (the elder) (1741–1811)

“Monument à la Gloire du Roi et de la France”, c1775, plate 2 after the design by Jacques Louis Touzé (1747–1807), published in 1775 as a fold-out illustration to Charles-François de Lubersac de Livron’s (1730–1804) “Discours sur les Monumens publics de tous les âges et de tous les peuples connus” (Discourse on the Public Monuments of all Ages and All Known Peoples), in Paris by J.G. Clousier (fl.1773–1775). The lettered text advises that the portrayed monument was dedicated and presented to King Louis XVI (and France) by the Abbot of Lubersac, Abbot of Noirlac and Prior of Brive.

Etching with engraving on laid paper trimmed unevenly around the image borderline with flattened folds and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 60.4 x 33.7 cm; (image borderline) 55.5 x 30.8 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (centre) “MONUMENT À LA GLOIRE DU ROI LOUIS XVI ET DE LA FRANCE./ PAR M. L’ABBÉ DE LUBERSAC VĨC. GEAL. DE NARBONNE, ABBÉ DE NOIRLAC ET P^R. DE BRIVE./ ESQUISSE AU PREMIER TRAIT.”; (right): “L J Masquelier aqua forti”

Paris Musées offer a description of this print: https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/musee-carnavalet/oeuvres/monument-a-la-gloire-du-roi-et-de-la-france#infos-principales.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression trimmed unevenly around the platemark on the bottom and sides and along the image borderline at top. The sheet has significant flattened folds and surface marks and has been laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper.

I am selling this large etching of a monument dedicated to Louis XVI and the glory of France for the total price of AU$246 (currently US$167.36/EUR160.08/GBP138.13 at the time of posting 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 grand scale etching, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.