Achille Ouvre, “L'Orchestre”, 1927

Achille Ouvre (aka Achille Ouvré) (1872–1951)

“L'Orchestre”, 1927, a pencil-signed impression inscribed as number 9 in an edition of 100 impressions (9/100), published in Paris by Editions Albert Morancé (fl.1922 –1968) in the art review, “Byblis Miroir des Arts du Livre et de l'Estampe”, 1927.

Etching with drypoint and/or engraving and plate tone on fine wove paper, pencil signed and numbered with full margins as published.

Size: (sheet) 22.6 x 28.1cm; (plate) 17.2 x 24.5cm; (image borderline) 16.2 x 23.4cm.

Inscribed below the image borderline: (in plate at right with the artist’s monogram) “A.O.”; (in pencil at left) “9/10”; (in pencil at right) [artist’s signature].

Condition: a faultless impression in pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains or signs of handling. Verso has pencil inscriptions giving details about the print.

I am selling this insightfully portrayed duet of a pianist and a violinist—note how the artist has captured perfectly the facial expression (somewhat hard to pin down in words) of a pianist attentively and dutifully accompanying the intensely focused passion of a violinist—for the total cost of AU$288 (currently/approximately US$192.28/EUR177.94/GBP147.97 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$288) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this superb etching of performers abandoned in their endless moment of accord in music making, 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

Richard Earlom, “The West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford”, 1785, after Sir Joshua Reynolds

Richard Earlom (aka [pseud.] Henry Birche) (1743–1822)

“The West Window of the Chapel, New College Oxford”, 1785, an open-letter proof before colour showing the Nativity, and a row of seven Saints and allegorical figures below (description by the British Museum [inv. no. Aa,13.42]), after the stained-glass window design by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723–1792), published in London by John Boydell (1719–1804),

Stipple engraving on laid paper trimmed around the image borderline and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 64.7 x 46.6cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.”; (left of centre) “Publish’d Sept^r. 1^st. 1785, by John Boydell.”; (centre [broken by the Oxford College coat of arms: “HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE/ MANNERS MAKYTH MAN”]) “John Boydell excudit 1785./ THE WEST WINDOW OF THE CHAPEL, NEW COLLEGE OXFORD./ Painted on Glas’s by M^r. Jervaise./ To the Rev^d. John Oglander, D.D. Warden, and to the Society of New College/ This PLATE is Dedicated by their Obliged humble Servant, John Boydell.”; (right of centre) “Engraver in Cheapside, London.”; (right) “Engraved by Richard Earlom.”

Wessely 6 (J E Wessely 1886 “Richard Earlom, Verzeichniss seiner Radirungen und Schabkunstblätter”, Hamburg, cat. no. 6).

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression trimmed around the image. The sheet has defects in keeping with its huge size (e.g., tears, restored chips and flattened folds), but these issues have been largely addressed by the sheet having been laid upon a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper that also provides a margin.

I am selling this exceptionally rare (proof state) and large stipple engraving, for the total cost of AU$348 (currently/approximately US$232.67/EUR214.63/GBP178.75 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$348) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this important engraving by Richard Earlom—described by the National Portrait Gallery in its biographical details about the artist, as one “of the greatest mezzotint and stipple engravers of his day”—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

Jean Baptiste Huet, “Title Plate to ‘Œuvres de J. B. Huet’”, c.1796

Jean Baptiste Huet (1745–1811)

“Title Plate to ‘Œuvres de J. B. Huet’”, c.1796 (BM 1798–99), from the series of thirty-eight etchings that is the first part to a volume of etchings by the artist titled in the plate, “Œuvres de J. B. Huet”, also known as “Cahiers d'Études”, published in Paris by the artist’s son, Jean Baptiste Huet the younger (inscribed in plate as “Huet fils”) (1772–1852) between 1796 and 1799. Note that the British Museum holds an impression of the title plate to the second part of the same volume of the series and offers an account of the publication details to the series (see BM inv. no. 1860,0211.181).

Etching on laid paper (lettered watermark) trimmed with a small margin around the image borderline.

Size: (sheet) 48.1 x 34.6cm; (image borderline) 44.9 x 31.8cm.

Inscribed in plate: (upper centre) “ŒUVRES/ DE/ J. B. HÜET.”; (within the image borderline at lower left edge) “J. B. Hüet l'an 7”; (below the image borderline at centre) “A Paris, chez Huet fils, Rue de la Liberté, N^o.88.”

See the description of this print offered by the British Museum (inv. no. 1860,0211.204).

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression in excellent condition for its considerable age and size with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this rare title plate etching that is outstanding in terms of the print’s huge size and the sensitive rendering of the wide range of animals portrayed (viz.  horse, elephant, deer, cow, dog, goat, lion, sheep, rabbit, camel, hippopotamus, frog, donkey, wolf, owl and no doubt other critters that I am unable to identify), for the total cost of AU$332 (currently/approximately US$222.83/EUR205.03/GBP170.82 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$332) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this spectacular title page to a compendium of the artist’s prints, 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

Pierre Larrieu, “Mystic Marriage of St Catherine”, c.1770, after Bartolomeo Biscaino

Pierre Larrieu (fl.1762–1774)

“Mystic Marriage of St Catherine” (descriptive title only based on my reading of the subject), c.1770, after the design (possibly a drawing) by Bartolomeo Biscaino (1629–1657). Although the composition of this etching does not follow any of Bartolomeo Biscaino’s fifty-eight documented etchings (see “The Illustrated Bartsch”, vol. 47, pp. 192–231), there is an etching by Biscaino featuring the subject of St Catherine’s mystic marriage to the Christ Child in which St Catherine is shown wearing a similar crown (see British Museum inv. no. W,6.88: TIB 47.33).

Etching on laid paper on a wove support sheet with small margins trimmed with a with truncated corners and laid on a larger support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 20.3 x 24.2cm; (platemark) 18.8 x 23 cm.

Inscribed in plate: (lower left) “Larrieu sc [letter “s” in reverse]”; (lower right) “Bi[s]caino in.”

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression trimmed with a small margin truncated on each corner of the margin. The sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds or significant stains and laid upon a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

I am selling this exceptionally rare and sensitively executed etching exemplifying a strong stylistic leaning to the Mannerist painter, Parmigianino (1503–1540), for the total cost of AU$294 (currently/approximately US$197.25/EUR181.47/GBP151.14 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$294) as this is my currency.

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

Achille Jacquet, “La Sainte Famille”, 1876, after Michelangelo (2nd copy)

Achille Jacquet (1846–1908)

“La Sainte Famille” (aka “The Holy Family”; “Doni Tondo”; “Doni Madonna”), 1876, after Michelangelo’s 1506 painting, “Doni Tondo”, in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, printed by Charles Chardon aîné (fl. mid-1800s) and published in Paris in 1876 between pages 143 and 145 in the Gazette des Beaux Arts, vol. 38 (see https://archive.org/details/gazettedesbeauxa38pari/page/n146/mode/2up).

Interestingly, the Gazette des Beaux Arts advises that this engraving “[transl.] … is the first reproduction with a burin that has been made of this famous work”—Michelangelo’s “Doni Tondo” (p. 145).

Engraving with etching on chine collé on wove paper, trimmed with a small margin around the chine collé and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 24 x 16.6 cm; (chine collé) 21 x 15.6 cm; (image borderline dia.) 14.3 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “MICHEL ANGE PINX./ Gazette des Beaux-Arts.”; (centre) “LA SAINTE FAMILLE/ MUSÉE DES OFFICES.”; (right) “ACHILLE JACQUET SC./ Imp Ch.Chardon ainé, Paris”.

Beraldi 5 (Henri Béraldi 1889, “Les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle: Guide de l'Amateur d'Estampes Modernes: Guérin–Lacoste”, vol. VIII, Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, p. 218, cat. no. 5 [https://archive.org/details/lesgraveursdu19e08berauoft/page/218/mode/2up]).

Condition: a well-printed impression in excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, significant stains. The sheet is trimmed with a small margin around the chine collé and laid upon a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

I am selling this marvellous jewel of nineteenth century engraving published as the first copy every made of Michelangelo’s famous tondo painting of the Holy Family, for the total cost of AU$223 (currently/approximately US$149.61/EUR137.65/GBP114.63 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$223) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this exceptionally beautiful and rare engraving—mindful that it is not held in any of the major museum repositories—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Note that this is the second copy of this engraving that I have listed. The previous copy has been sold.