Marie Rosalie Bertaud’s etching, “Orage Impétueux”, c1770, after Joseph Vernet

Marie Rosalie Bertaud (aka Me Re Bertaud) (1738–after 1800)

(For information about this artist see https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/view/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00018002.)

“Orage Impétueux” (plate title) (aka “Impetuous Storm” [Met title]), c1770, after Claude Joseph Vernet (1714–1789), published in Paris by François Joullain (aka François Joulain; François Joulin) (1697–1778) in 1770 (see details at WorldCat: https://www.worldcat.org/title/orage-impetueux-pk-p-126893/oclc/884903026).

Etching with engraving on laid paper trimmed along (or slightly within) the image borderline with loss of the text lines below the image and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 30.3 x 43 cm.

Arlaud 1976, 20.64 (Docteur Pierre Arlaud, 1990, “Catalogue Raisonné des Estampes Gravées d'après Joseph Vernet”, Avignon, p. 20, cat. no. 64)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a description of this print:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/811953?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=Joseph+Vernet&offset=0&rpp=80&pos=27.  

Condition: strong and well-printed impression trimmed around the image borderline and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper. The trimmed sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, significant abrasions, stains or foxing.

I am selling this large and superbly executed etching (with engraving) by an historically overlooked printmaker (Marie Rosalie Bertaud) and one of the remarkably few female artists of the 18^th century, for AU$284 (currently US$206.32/EUR174.40/GBP155.78 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.

If you are interested in purchasing this startlingly dramatic scene after one of the great painters of shipwrecks (Claude Joseph Vernet), 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