Alfred Brunet-Debaines, “Les Bords de la Seine (Andelys)”, circa 1871

Alfred Brunet-Debaines (also known as Alfred-Louis Brunet-Debaines) (1845–1939)

“Les Bords de la Seine (Andelys)” or “The Banks of the Seine (Andelys)”, circa 1871

Technical Details & Condition:

Etching on fine watermarked laid paper with full margins as issued. This is plate 89, published and printed in Paris in 1871 by Cadart & Luce, as an illustration for the art periodical “L'Illustration Nouvelle”, volume 3 (see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8527598g/f9.item).

This is a superb impression that is richly inked and well-printed. The sheet is in near pristine condition, free of tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, or signs of handling.

Dimensions:

• Sheet: 48.7 x 31.2 cm
• Platemark: 18.8 x 12.6 cm
• Image borderline: 15.8 x 10 cm

In-Plate Lettering:

• Upper right corner: “89.”
• Within the image at lower left (ill defined): “A Brunet Debaines”
• Lower left: “A.Brunet-Debaines sc.”
• Lower centre: “Paris,CADART & LUCE,Editeurs Imprimeurs,Rue N^ve des Mathurins,58. / LES BORDS DE LA SEINE (Andelys.)”

References:

• IFF 5 (Jean Laren & Jean Adhémar, Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800: BOCQVIN–BYON, 1942, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes, vol. 3, p. 480, cat. no. 5)
• Museum of Art and History: https://www.mahmah.ch/collection/oeuvres/les-bords-de-la-seine-andelys/e-2015-0445-007

Price & Shipping:

AU$232 (approx. US$166.27 / €141.98 / £123.10), including worldwide express shipping. Import duties and taxes (if any) are the buyer’s responsibility.

To acquire this beautifully romantic portrayal of a solitary boatman beaching his small boat on the River Seine—highlighting Brunet-Debaines’ close ties to the Barbizon school, especially Corot, with his focus on everyday scenes and love of unmanicured landscapes—please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I am happy to provide a secure PayPal invoice for a seamless transaction.

Auguste Feyen-Perrin, “Éclair”, 1868

Auguste Feyen-Perrin (also known as François-Nicolas-Augustin Feyen-Perrin) (1826-1888)

“Éclair”—lightning or a flash of lightning (not the French pastry eaten “in a flash”), 1868

Technical Details & Condition:

Etching and aquatint on fine laid paper. The plate is numbered 32 from first volume (1868) of the series “L’Illustration Nouvelle” published in Paris by Cadart & Luce (Alfred Cadart and his assistant Léandre Luce) (fl. 1867–1870/1). It was printed by Auguste Delâtre (1822–1907).

This is a richly inked and well-printed impression with generously wide margins. Aside from minor age-toning, the sheet is in excellent condition, free of tears, holes, folds, abrasions, or significant stains.

Dimensions:

• Sheet: 32.5 x 40.2 cm
• Platemark: 15.1 x 25 cm
• Image borderline: 12.9 x 20.4 cm

Plate Lettering:

• Lower left: “Feyen-Perrin sc.”
• Lower centre: “ÉCLAIR / CADART & LUCE, Editeurs,Rue N^ve des Mathurins,58.”
• Upper right: “32.”
• Lower right: “Imp.Delâtre,Paris.”

References:

• British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1870-0514-861
• Kunsthalle Bremen: https://bremen.museum-digital.de/object/19491  

Price & Shipping:

AU$229 (approximately US$158.23 / €137.25 / £119.72), including worldwide express shipping. Import duties are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you are interested in acquiring this eye-catching etching of a female nude illuminated against darkness like a lightning flash, please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I will be happy to provide a PayPal invoice to facilitate a smooth and secure purchase.

This print has been sold 

Adolphe Martial Potémont, “Soldiers, a Deserter and Ruins”, 1870/1

Adolphe Martial (aka Adolphe Martial Potémont;; Adolphe Théodore Jules Martial Potémont) (1828–1883)

“Soldiers, a Deserter and Ruins” (“Soldaten, ein Deserteur und Ruinen”), 1870/1, plate 3 from the series of 13 plates (including the title plate [see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1982-U-1254]), “Paris During the Siege” (“Paris Pendant le Siège”), published in 1871 in Paris by Cadart & Luce (fl.1867–1871) in “Paris pendant le siège, Notes et eaux fortes”, in 1871.

Etching with pale plate tone on fine laid paper with wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 47.7 x 30.3 cm; (platemark) 23.8 x 16 cm; (image borderline) 23 x 15.3 cm.

Numbered and inscribed in plate: (upper right corner) “3”; (upper left) “Le siege de Paris”; (upper right) “Notes et eaux-fortes – A. Martial”; (centre) “Nouvelles du 19 Septembre [… dated entries of text from 19^th September when General Ducrot with four divisions tries to stop the Prussian troops to 25^th September when the governor of Paris declares that it is necessary to suppress any manifestation that everyone is in combat or ready to fight] - PARIS PENDANT LE SIÈGE –“.

State i (of i)

Beraldi 11 (Henri Béraldi 1891, “Les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle: Guide de l'Amateur d'Estampes Modernes: PILLEMENT– SAINT-ÈVRE”, vol. XI, Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, p. 35, cat. no. 11 [“Paris Pendant le Siège”]).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “Plate 3, with etched text giving an account of the siege of Paris from 19 to 24 September 1870, and in the upper part and on left and right some sketches representing soldiers, one of whom, a deserter, seen from behind, with the label 'lâche' ('coward') [stuck] to his back; at the bottom a soldier standing in a street, contemplating the ruins of a house destroyed during the war. 1870/71” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1873-0510-3200),

Etching, printed on thin paper See also the description of this print offered by Kunsthalle Bremen: https://onlinekatalog.kunsthalle-bremen.de/DE-MUS-027614/object/92116.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression with full and generously wide margins as published. The sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this creatively inventive etching formatted as a trompe l'oeil layering of hand-inscribed diary pages with fragmented images relating to the written notes, for AU$227 in total (currently/approximately US$152.09/ EUR137.63/ GBP116.05 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$227) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this amazing etching documenting in a unique way an historically important episode in French history, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

 

Alfred Dannequin’s etching, “Plateau de Belle-Croix, Forêt de Fontainebleau”, 1869

Alfred Dannequin (aka Alfred Joseph Dannequin) (?–1890)

“Plateau de Belle-Croix, Forêt de Fontainebleau”, 1869, a proof-state impression before lettering for publication in Paris by Cadart & Luce (Alfred Cadart [1828–1875]) and printing by Abraham Beillet (fl.1850–76/83) as an illustration to the art periodical, “L'Illustration Nouvelle.” See description of the lettered/published state offered by MAH (Musée d'art et d'histoire, Ville de Genève): https://www.mahmah.ch/collection/oeuvres/plateau-de-belle-croix-foret-de-fontainebleau/e-2015-0436-009.

Regarding this print and the artist, the Museum of New Zealand (Te Papa Tongarewa) offers the following marvellous insights: “In this highly atmospheric, romantic etching, evocative—probably unconsciously—of the beautiful precision and humility towards nature of Caspar David Friedrich, we see three ancient, leafless oaks standing out against a buttermilk sky. Glacial boulders surround a brackish pond and an unknown man, probably rendered deliberately small, poses with a staff at the centre. The scen[e] is located in the Forest of Fontainebleau, the favoured location of the Barbizon School of French realist painters including Corot and Daubigny. The printmaker Alfred Joseph Dannequin (d. 1890) was a little-known associate of the Barbizon School” (https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/37739).

Etching, drypoint and dot-roulette on tissue-thin washi paper, proof-state impression before lettering for publication with wide margins and pencil notations giving descriptive details about the print inscribed along the lower edge of the margin.

Size: (sheet) 27.2 x 40.8 cm; (plate) 18.2 x 23.6 cm; (image borderline) 15 x 23 cm.

Beraldi 2 (Henri Béraldi 1886, “Les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle: Guide de l'Amateur d'Estampes Modernes: CHERRIER–DIEN”, vol. V, Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, p. 89, cat. no. 2 of 4 titles listed).

Condition: a richly inked faultless proof-state impression with generously wide margins. The sheet is in a near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains or foxing but there is a pencil inscribed notation from a previous collection giving the critical details about the print.

I am selling this exceptionally rare, proof-state impression before lettering with the title and publication details, for AU$281 in total (currently/approximately US$190.69/EUR174.79/GBP146.81 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$281) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this beautifully moody twilight scene showing not only a figure resting on a cane near a pond in the Fontainebleau Forest—a forest sixty kilometres southeast of Paris that was a favourite painting location for the Barbizon School of artists—but, more interesting to me, also showing some of the sparkle of the brilliantly white sand—arguably the purest in the world and used (I understand) by the Murano glassworks—and rocky bars of the region (see https://www.mindat.org/loc-1698.html), please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

John Lewis Brown, “Washington”, 1869

John Lewis Brown (1829–1890)

“Washington” (aka “George Washington à Cheval”), 1869, a proof-state lifetime impression before lettering for publication. This print was later published by Cadart et Luce (fl.1867–1870/1) in Paris (see the description of an impression of the lettered state held by the MET: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/836133).

Etching with pale plate tone on fine laid paper (Japon volant) with generously wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 39.8 x 27.2 cm; (platemark) 15.9 x 11.9 cm; (image borderline) 13.2 x 10.5 cm

IFF 5 (Jean Adhémar & Jacques Lethève 1954, “Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800”, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, p. 460, cat. no. 5).

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression on tissue-thin washi paper with generously wide margins. There is a pencil inscription by a previous collector along the lower edge of the margin (“Washington par T. L. Brown”), otherwise, the sheet is in a pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains or signs of handling.

I am selling this sensitively executed proof-state etching of the first President of the United States, George Washington (1732–1799), on horseback holding a tricorner hat in his right hand and with his left hand on his chest—possibly signalling his feeling of deep commitment to his beliefs and confident leadership—for AU$286 in total (currently US$183.63/EUR172.87/GBP174.61 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 exceptionally rare lifetime impression before the plate was later lettered for publication with its title and publisher details, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.