Charles Courtry, “L'Ecureuse”, 1876, after Jean Siméon Chardin

Charles Courtry (aka Charles Jean Louis Courtry) (1846–1897)

“L'Ecureuse” (aka “The Scullery Maid”; “The Cookmaid”), 1876, after Jean Siméon Chardin’s (aka Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin) (1699–1779) painting, “The Scullery Maid”, c.1738 (see https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.110960.html), printed by Alfred Salmon (fl.1863–1894) and published in Paris in the art periodical, “Gazette des Beaux-Arts” (1st March, 1876) between pages 430 and 431.

Etching on fine laid paper with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 20.5 x 16.2 cm; (plate, soft impression) 16.8 x 13.4 cm; (image borderline) 13.3 x 11 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “CHARDIN PINX./ Gazette des Beaux-Arts.”; (centre) “L'ECUREUSE.”; (right) “CH. COURTRY SCULP./ Imp. A. Salmon, Paris.”

IFF 72 (Jean Adhémar 1949, “Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800: Cidoine–Daumier”, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes, vol. 5, p. 280, cat. no. 72 [see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5488526m/f292.image]).

Condition: a strong and well-printed (near faultless) impression with a small margin around the platemark and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. The sheet is in an excellent (near pristine) condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or stains.

I am selling this finely executed etching after Jean Siméon Chardin’s famous painting, for AU$207 (equivalent to approximately US$132.68, EUR 116.95, or GBP 99.81 at the time of listing) and includes Express Mail Service (EMS) postage and handling to any worldwide destination. Please note that any import duties or taxes levied by the destination country are the responsibility of the buyer and are not included in the purchase price. Payment is requested in Australian dollars (AU$207).

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

Jules de Goncourt’s etching, “Le Goblet D'Argent (after Chardin)”, 1862

Jules de Goncourt (aka Jules Alfred de Goncourt) (1830–1870)

“Le Goblet D'Argent (after Chardin)”, 1862, proof impression before lettering for publication after a portion of Jean-Siméon Chardin’s (1699–1779) painting, “The Silver Goblet”, c1730, originally in the Laperlier collection (according to Philippe Burty [1876] in his catalogue raisonné, p. 13) now in the collection of the St Louis Art Museum. The final lettered state is inscribed with Auguste Delâtre (aka Auguste Marie Delâtre) (1822–1907) as the printer (see BM inv. no. 1876,1111.398). Philippe Burty (1876, [n.p.] p. 21) advises that François Liénard printed an earlier edition of 2 impressions on vellum, 100 impressions on Japanese paper and 200 impressions on laid paper.

Etching on fine China paper, proof impression before lettering for publication on Japan paper, backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 41.2 x 30 cm; (plate [very soft]) 28.1? x 20.9? cm; (image borderline) 26.2 x 18.7 cm.

Inscribed on plate within the image borderline: (lower right corner) “J. G. 52”.

Burty 58 (Philippe Burty 1876, “Eaux-fortes de Jules de Goncourt”, Paris, Librairie de L’Art, p. 13, cat. no. 58; see https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008529303/page/n41/mode/2up and illustration https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008529303/page/n65/mode/2up); IFF 55 (Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes): Beraldi 58 (Henri Beraldi 1887, “Les graveurs du 19e siècle; guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes”, vol. 7, Paris, L Conquet, p. 176, cat. no. 58).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print:

“Still-life with silver cup, cherries, apples, and a glass carafe in the background, left”

(https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1876-1111-396).

Condition: richly inked superb proof impression with generously wide margins and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper because the sheet is tissue thin. The sheet has the usual specks and unevenness of handmade Oriental paper; otherwise the sheet is in excellent condition with no tears, significant stains or foxing.

I am selling this remarkably fine etching by Jules de Goncourt of the exceptionally famous and inseparable brothers known for their literary work and diaries offering a window to the social life around them—e.g. “Germinie Lacerteux”, a novel based purportedly on their family servant who stole from the brothers “to buy absinthe and cavort with her brutish gigolo” (https://haquelebac.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/germinie-lacerteux-by-the-goncourt-brothers/)— for the total cost of AU$256 (currently US$186.67/EUR157.66/GBP144.45 at the time of posting this print) 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 sensitively executed study of a section of a still-life painting by Chardin, 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