Étienne Delaune, “God Commanding Noah to Enter the Ark”, c.1560

Étienne Delaune (aka Stephanus) (c. 1518–1583)
“God Commanding Noah to Enter the Ark” (or “Dieu ordonnant à Noé d'entrer dans l'Arche”), circa 1560 (1550–1572)

Technical Details & Condition:
Engraving on laid paper, trimmed around the image borderline, mounted on a support sheet providing wide margins. This is plate 10 from the series of 36 engravings, “The Genesis” (also known as “Histoire de la Genèse”). It is a first state (lifetime) impression, before a lowercase “i” was inserted between the last two letters of the word “DIXT” in the Latin inscription on the writing edge. For an explanation of the two states of this print, see Robert-Dumesnil [1865] on page 30, cat. no. 33, and compare this first state impression with the second state held by the Louvre: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl020576829.

The impression is strong and well-printed. Aside from restored fractures in the writing edge, the image area is free of tears, holes, folds, or significant stains.

Dimensions:
• Sheet: 7.7 x 10.5 cm
• Image borderline: 6.9 x 10.5 cm

Lettering on Plate (with translation):
• Within the image borderline at lower left: “Cum Pri. Reg.” (with Royal Privilege) and “.S.F.” (Stephanus Fecit / made it)
• Below the image borderline at centre: “GENESE 7” (referring to Chapter 7 of the Book of Genesis) / “DIXT DOMINVS [AD] NOAH INCREDERE TV ET OMNIS DOMVS TVA / IN ARCA ET EX OMIN[V]IVMENTO ACCIPIES TIBI DE VOLVORE QVOOZ COELI” (The Lord said to Noah: Go into the ark, you and your entire family. And take with you every kind of living creature, including the birds of the sky.)

References:
• Robert-Dumesnil 33 (A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil, “Le peintre-graveur français, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française: ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch”, vol. 9, 1865, Paris, Bouchard-Huzard, p. 30, cat. no. 33). See https://archive.org/details/bnf-bpt6k65575421/page/n51/mode/2up
• British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_Gg-4D-95

Price & Shipping:
AU$298 (approximately US$211.02 / €178.35 / £155.95), including worldwide express shipping.
Please note: Import duties and taxes are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you are interested in acquiring this jewel-like engraving depicting God giving instructions to Noah as the creatures of the world board the ark—note the interesting size relationship between the elephant entering the ark and the face of one of Noah’s sons welcoming it inside—please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I am happy to provide a secure PayPal invoice for a seamless purchase.

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Étienne Delaune, “July”, 1568

Étienne Delaune (aka Stephanus) (c.1518–1583)

“July”, 1568, plate 7 from the series of twelve engravings, “Twelve Months” (aka “The Labours of the Months”).

Engraving on fine laid paper trimmed close to the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 5.6 x 8.2 cm; (oval image borderline) 5.5 x 7.7 cm.

Lettered in plate (indistinct) along the lower edge: (left) “IVLLIET”; (right) “CVM PRĪ REGIS”.

Robert-Dumesnil 191 (A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil 1835, “Le peintre-graveur français, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française: ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch”, vol. 9, Paris, G Warée, p. 58, cat. no. 191); Pollet 100 (Christophe Pollet 1995, “Les gravures d'Etienne Delaune [1518-1583]”, vol. 1, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, pp. 347–48, cat. no. 100).

See also the description of this print offered by the Davison Art Collection (Wesleyan University): https://dac-collection.wesleyan.edu/objects-1/info/4427.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers the following insights about this print: “Engraving, part of a series of twelve oval prints with allegorical representations of the months with the seasonal labors inherited from the Middle Ages. The activities illustrated in the series do not seem to have a moral sense, and depict relatively simple scenes with characters dressed in simple garbs, executing their labors in rustic landscapes. In this print, July is represented by an outdoor scene dominated by Leo, the attribute of the month. Two peasants appear in the first plane, one mowing the crops and the other sharpening his scythe. In the second plane, a group of small characters are bathing in a river, one of them running on the river bank. In the background, a man drives a hay truck. The theme of this representation, centered on the crops of hay, is consistent with traditional representations of the labors of the months, including the ‘Calendrier et Kompost des Bergers’” (https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/749564).

Condition: a fine and well-printed impression trimmed along to the platemark and laid onto a sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins.

I am selling this small and delicately executed engraving showing the activity of harvesting associated with the month of July—note also in the middle distance naked figures having fun in the river that must be possible during this warmer month—for the total cost of AU $298 (currently US $188.51/ EUR 179.55/ GBP 151.91 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 $298) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this sensitively rendered tiny jewel of an engraving, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Étienne Delaune, “Fire”, c.1576

Étienne Delaune (aka Stephanus) (c1518–83)

“Fire” (aka “Le Feu”; “Vuur”), c.1576 (1573–1580), a first state, lifetime, impression from the series of four plates, “The Four Elements” (aka “Personificaties van de vier elementen; “De vier elementen”).

Engraving on fine laid paper trimmed along the platemark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 5.3 x 6.6cm; (oval image borderline) 5.1 x 6.4cm.

Inscribed in plate within the image borderline: (lower left) “S[tephanus]”.

State i (of ii) before the addition of the number “12” at the lower right corner.

IFF 114 (Jean Adhémar 1932–38, “Inventaire du Fonds Français: Graveurs du Seizième Siècle”, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, vol. 1, p. 238, cat. no. 114); Robert-Dumesnil 106 (A P F Robert-Dumesnil 1835, “Le peintre-graveur français, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française: ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch”, vol. 9, Paris, G Warée, pp. 42-43, cat.no. 106 [https://archive.org/details/bnf-bpt6k65575421/page/n63/mode/2up]).

The Rijksmuseum offers the following description of this print: (transl.) “Jupiter, seated on a cloud above a landscape with a castle” (http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.103019).

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

I am selling this small and finely crafted engraving—a true jewel of an engraving—for the total cost of AU$318 (currently US$209.85/EUR194.30/GBP161.90 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$318) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this sensitively rendered engraving—note the engraver’s skill in representing in the minutest of details the burning lime-kilns shown in the distance and all the amazing details portraying the cloud-borne Jupiter with his thunderbolt and eagle attributes all within in space of less than 2cm square—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Étienne Delaune, “Abraham's Feast”, c.1560

Étienne Delaune (aka Stephanus) (c.1518–1583)

“Abraham's Feast” (aka “Abraham donnant un repas pour solenniser le jour ou fut sevré son fils Isaac.” [R-D title]; “Abraham Giving a Banquet on the Day Isaac is Weaned”), c.1560 (1550–1572), plate 23 from the series of 36 engravings, “The Genesis” (aka “Histoire de la Genèse”).

Interestingly, the Curator of the British Museum advises: “Panels set into a Limoges enamel casket made around 1600 […] were based on this print and others from this series” (BM inv. no. 1834,0804.77) (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_WB-51).

Engraving on laid paper with narrow margins backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 8.9 x 11.3 cm; (platemark) 7.9 x 10.7 cm; (image borderline) 6.9 x 10.5 cm.

Lettered in plate within the image borderline: (left) “.CVM. PRI. REGIS.”; (left of centre) “STEPHANVS. F.”

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (centre) “GENES 21/ ABLACTATO ISAAC, CONVIVI ABRAHAM, VIDETO[que]/ SARRA FILIVM ABRAHE LASCIVIENTEM.” (transl. with apologies for any errors: “Genesis 21: After Isaac was weaned, I saw Abraham, and I saw Sarah leaving Abraham’s son”).

Robert-Dumesnil 46 (A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil 1865, “Le peintre-graveur français, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française: ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch”, vol. 9, Paris, Bouchard -Huzard, p. 31, cat. no. 46 [see https://archive.org/details/bnf-bpt6k65575421/page/n51/mode/2up]).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “Plate 23: Abraham giving a banquet on the day Isaac is weaned; the banquet is held in a room on the right; on the left a servant pours the content of a jug into a pan and stirs” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1834-0804-77).

Condition: a strong impression trimmed with a small margin around to the platemark and laid onto a sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper. The sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or stains.

I am selling this superb engraving that is very likely to be a lifetime impression (based on the quality of line showing no sign of wear to the printing plate) and in a marvellously preserved condition, for the total cost of AU$298 (currently US$198.83/EUR179.30/GBP151.42 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$298) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this sensitively rendered tiny jewel of an engraving, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Étienne Delaune’s engraving, “May”, 1568

Étienne Delaune (aka Stephanus) (c1518–83)

“May”, 1568, plate 4 from the series of twelve engravings, “Twelve Months” (aka “The Labours of the Months”).

Engraving on fine laid paper trimmed close to the platemark backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 5.6 x 8.2 cm; (oval image borderline) 5.5 x 7.7 cm.

Lettered in plate along the lower edge: (left) “MAY”; (right) “CVM PRĪ REGIS”.

Robert-Dumesnil 189 (A.P.F. Robert-Dumesnil 1835, “Le peintre-graveur français, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française: ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch”, vol. 9, Paris, G Warée, p. 59, cat. no. 189); IFF 192 (André Linzeler 1932, “Inventaire du Fonds Français. Graveurs du XVIe Siècle”, vol. I, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes, p. 254, cat. no. 192); Pollet 98 (Christophe Pollet 1995, “Les gravures d'Etienne Delaune [1518-1583]”, vol. 1, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, pp. 347–48, cat. no. 98).

The Rijksmuseum offers the following description of this print: (Transl.) “Garden with three women making music in the foreground and men at a table in the background. At the top of the constellation Gemini” and advises that the print is “Part of a twelve-part series of the twelve months with signs of the zodiac, in oval shape” (http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.103040).

Condition: a very delicate impression trimmed close to the platemark with a restored lower left corner and laid onto a sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

I am selling this small and finely crafted engraving showing activities associated with the month of May—viz. harvesting, discourse, riding, falconry, chaplet/floral headband making and playing music (my apologies if I am wrong in my reading of these activities)—for the total cost of AU$298 (currently US$209.33/EUR185.32/GBP157.89 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 sensitively rendered tiny jewel of an engraving, 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