Auguste Alexandre
Baudran (1823–1907)
“La
Ronde”, 1864, a facsimile
engraving employing a photomechanical process—possibly more advanced than the Heliogravure
(photogravure) process that Baudran had inscribed on some of his earlier photomechanical
prints (e.g., “Marie Ann Charlotte Corday de Armans” [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1898-0527-276]), but before Baudran’s “Colour Projection Method” that he developed/invented
in 1891 (see Bernard E Jones [ed.] 1911, “Cassell’s Cylopædia of Photography,
London, Cassell & Company, Ltd., p. 57 [https://ia804708.us.archive.org/5/items/cu31924030707867/cu31924030707867.pdf]),
printed in three colours by Alfred Salmon (fl.1863–1894) after Domenico Campagnola’s (1500–1564) brown ink
drawing (with chalk), “Twelve Dancing Putti” (see https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/4270/manifest.json),
1517, published in Paris in the art periodical, “La Gazette des Beaux-Arts”, 1st
July, 1864, p. 158 (see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k203081b/f488.double).
Photomechanical
facsimile engraving printed in three colours (warm ochre, sanguine and burnt umber)
on heavy wove paper with wide margins.
Size: (sheet) 18.4
x 25 cm; (plate) 14 x 18.9 cm; (image borderline) 9.6 x 12.4 cm.
Inscribed in
plate within the image borderline: (lower centre) “Dominicvs/ Cāpaqnola/ .1517.”.
Lettered in
plate below the image borderline: (left) “D. CAMPAGNOLA SCT./ Gazette
des Beaux-Arts”; (centre) “LA RONDE”; (right) FAC-SIMILE DE M. BAUDRAN/ Imp. A.
Salmon à Paris”.
Alfred Morrison
& M Holloway 1868, “The collection of engravings, formed between the years
1860–68”, London, [privately printed] Holloway and Son, p. 30 (https://archive.org/details/collectionofengr00morr/page/30/mode/2up).
Condition: a strong
and well-printed impression in near pristine condition with no tears, holes,
folds, abrasions, stains or signs of handling.
I am selling
this extraordinarily beautiful three-colour facsimile (photomechanical) hand-printed
engraving published in 1864—for AU$198 in total (currently US$135.22/EUR121.11/GBP101.54
at the time of posting 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$198)
as this is my currency.
If you are
interested in purchasing this jewel of an engraving exemplifying the advances
made by Domenico Campagnola in creating a note looseness and life to the stippled
engraving technique developed by his former teacher, Giulio Campagnola (1482–1515),
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
