Alfred Alexandre Delauney, “Trees Silhouetted in a Forest”, (2nd copy), c.1870

Alfred Alexandre Delauney (1830–1895)

“Trees Silhouetted in a Forest” (descriptive title only), c.1870.

Etching with on fine wove paper backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 22.7 x 14.7 cm; (plate) 15.5 x 8.6 cm.

Inscribed minutely in plate below the image borderline: (centre) “Delauney”.

Condition: richly inked and well-printed (near faultless) impression in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

I am selling this small, sparklingly luminous impression for AU$222 in total (currently US$153.56/EUR137.59/GBP114.79 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. Note that payment is in Australian dollars (AU$222) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this little jewel of an etching that (to my eyes) captures the spirit of the time in which it was executed—viz. a fascination with the effects of light (Impressionism); a love of rural subject matter (Barbizon School); a free use of the etching needle (Etching Revival)—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Note that this is the second copy of this very beautiful etching that has been listed. The previous impression has been sold.

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Alfred Alexandre Delauney’s etching with drypoint, “Landscape with Cattle and Approaching Storm”, 1872

Alfred Alexandre Delauney (1830–1894)

“Landscape with Cattle and Approaching Storm” (aka “Landscape with Cows Along a Stream”; “Landschap met koeien langs beek” [Rijksmuseum title]), 1872

Etching and drypoint on chine collé on heavy wove paper with wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 34.9 x 43.8 cm; (plate) 21.8 x 32.6 cm; (image borderline) 20.6 x 31.6 cm.

Inscribed in within the image borderline: (lower left corner) “Delauney. 1872”.

The Rijksmuseum and the Baltimore Museum of Art offer descriptions of this print:  http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.103094; https://collection.artbma.org/objects/5300/landscape-with-cattle-and-approaching-storm.

See also the description of this print before the artist’s signature and date are inscribed: https://collection.artbma.org/objects/71698/cattle-by-a-stream#.

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed impression with generously wide margins in near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this poetically beautiful etching of a nineteenth century rural scene featuring cows beside a stream with light sparkling on trees before a storm, for the total cost of AU$239 (currently US$159.75/EUR144.54/GBP127.24 at the time of 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 marvellous etching that (to my eyes) captures the spirit of the time in which it was executed—viz. a fascination with the effects of light on surfaces (Impressionism); a love of rural subject matter (Barbizon School); a free use of the etching needle (Etching Revival)—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Alfred Alexandre Delauney’s etching, “A Gouville (Manche)”, 1881

Alfred Alexandre Delauney (1830–1894)

“A Gouville (Manche)” (At Gouville [Manche]), 1881, plate 5 from the series, “L'Eau Forte en 1881”— a volume containing 124 prints by various artists during four years of “L'Eau-Forte” (1878–81)—printed and published by Alfred Cadart (aka Veuve Cadart) (1828–1875 [life dates]) in Paris.

Etching on buff coloured laid paper with wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 47.3 x 35.3 cm; (plate) 29.5 x 19.6 cm; (image borderline) 28.4 x 18.7 cm.

Numbered in plate above the image borderline: (right) “5.”

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “A.Delauney.del.et sc.”; (centre) “A GOUVILLE (Manche)”; (right) “VveA.Cadart.Edit.Imp. 56.Bard Haussmann,Paris.”

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco offer the following description of this print:

“Scene around a farmyard well; man with horses; woman; chickens; ducks; old two wheel cart; house beyond” (https://art.famsf.org/alfred-alexandre-delauney/gouville-manche-19633029642).

See also descriptions of this print offered by the British Museum, Harvard Art Museums and Des Moines Art Center: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1915-0105-15-101; https://hvrd.art/o/239499; https://emuseum.desmoinesartcenter.org/objects/38520/.

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed impression with generously wide margins in pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this superb etching of rural life sparkling in early morning light close to where I understand that the artist was born, for the total cost of AU$239 (currently US$185.06/EUR151.88/GBP130.71 at the time of 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 poetically beautiful etching that (to my eyes) captures the spirit of the time in which it was executed—viz. a fascination with the effects of light on surfaces (Impressionism); a liking for vertical formats (Japonisme); a love of rural subject matter (Barbizon School); a free use of the etching needle (Etching Revival)—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Alfred Alexandre Delauney's etching, “Trees Silhouetted in a Forest”, c.1890

Alfred Alexandre Delauney (1830–1895)

“Trees Silhouetted in a Forest” (descriptive title only), late 1800s. (Note that Delauney executed a similarly romantic vision of a forest in a vertical format—but significantly larger—“Birds and a Cascade Waterfall”, dated on the plate, “1890” (see https://www.printsandprinciples.com/2019/03/alfred-alexandre-delauneys-huge-etching.html).

Etching with drypoint on fine laid paper (with watermark), inscribed minutely with the artist’s name on plate (below the image borderline at centre).

Size: (sheet) 25.6 x 17.9 cm; (plate) 15.5 x 8.6 cm; (image borderline) 14.8 x 8.3 cm.

Inscribed in extremely small lettering on plate below the image borderline: (centre) “Delauney”.

This may be a proof-state impression as there are no plate lettered publication details.

Condition: richly inked and well-printed impression with large margins (approx. 4.5 cm) in pristine condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, losses, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of use).

I am selling this small, sparklingly luminous and rare impression—note that I have been unable to locate another copy of this print in any of the major museums or online—for [deleted] 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 little jewel of an etching that fits well with FL Leipnik’s (1924) assessment of the artist—albeit with regard to his street scenes—in “A History of French Etching from the Sixteenth Century to the Present Day”, that Delauney “had a foible for dark … and accentuating … gloom” (p. 126), please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Alfred Alexandre Delauney's etching, “The Water Mill”, 1883, after Meindert Hobbema

Alfred Alexandre Delauney (1830–1895)

“The Water Mill” (Le Moulin a Eau), 1883 (as dated on plate), after Meindert Hobbema’s (1638–1709) painting (1692) in the collection of the Louvre Museum (MI 270; see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meindert_Hobbema_004.jpg), pencil signed proof impression

Etching on heavy buff-coloured wove paper trimmed along or within the platemark, pencil signed, and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet trimmed slightly unevenly) 59 x 34.4 cm; (image borderline) 47.3 x 38.2 cm.

Inscribed on plate below the image borderline: (left) “Hobbema pin[x]”; (right) “Delauney sc. 1883”.

Signed in pencil below the image borderline: (right) “Delauney”.

Condition: richly inked and well-printed, pencil signed impression with 2.5 cm margins around the image borderline at the top and sides and a 5.8 margin on the lower edge and laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper. The sheet is in excellent condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, abrasions and foxing) with only a few specks and minor signs of handling in the margins.

I am selling this large, rare and sparklingly luminous etching after the most famous of Hobbema’s paintings featuring the watermill at Singraven in Overijssel—Hobbema must have been fascinated by this mill as he made around three dozen paintings of it—for AU$246 (currently US$166.42/EUR151.01/GBP128.68 at the time of posting this print) 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 superbly executed etching capturing the complexity of natural patterns and tonal relationships, such as the way the tree limbs seem to be woven into foliage and how the shapes of shadows in the clouds parallel the shapes of the shadows in the trees, 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