Jean Léon Gérôme’s etching, “Tête de Négresse du Hedjaz”, 1860

Jean Léon Gérôme (1824–1904)

“Tête de Négresse du Hedjaz” (Head of a Negress of Hejaz), 1860, published in the “Gazette des Beaux-Arts” (vol. 5, 1860, p. 296 [facing page]).

Archive.org offers an online view of this print in its context in the publication: https://archive.org/details/gazettedesbeauxa05pari/page/296/mode/2up; see also the description of the print: https://archive.org/details/gazettedesbeauxa05pari/page/384/mode/2up.

Etching on buff chine collé (China) on wove paper with small margins (as published) backed with a support sheet to provide wider margins.

Size: (support sheet) 38.4 x 28,7 cm; (sheet) 26.7 x 17.2 cm; (plate) 21.4 x 15.8 cm: (chine collé) 19.8 x 14.5 cm.

Inscribed in plate: (upper left) “Negresse/ du/ Hedj[az]/ … [possibly poorly inscribed Arabic عبد من for “slave from”?]; (lower left) [signature] “J L Gerome/ Gazette des Beaux arts”.

Berald 2 (Henri Béraldi 1888, “Les graveurs du 19e siècles: guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes: Gavarni–Guérard”, vol. 7, Paris, Librairie L. Gonquet, p. 103, cat. no. 2); IFF 1 (Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “Portrait of a Black woman from Hijaz, bust-length, facing the viewer, a veil covering her head; published in 'La Gazette des Beaux Arts', 1860/ Etching on chine collé” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1870-0709-170).

See also the description of this print at the Yale University Art Gallery: https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/13672.

Condition: a well-printed impression in near faultless condition with small margins (as published) and laid onto a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper. The sheet is in a near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of handling. 

I am selling this original etching by a key Academician, a leading luminary of the Orientalist movement and arguably one of the most famous artists in the late nineteenth century (see Wikipedia for Jean-Léon Gérôme)—for AU$265 (currently US$199.44/EUR178.96/GBP151.66 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 very beautiful etching of an equally beautiful woman from Hejaz—the area sometimes call the “Western Province” of Saudi Arabia—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 

Jean Léon Gérôme's etching, “Le Fumeur Égyptien”, c1865 (2nd impression)

Jean Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)

“Le Fumeur Égyptien” (The Egyptian Smoker), c1865, proof impression before lettering for publication in “La Gazette des Beaux-Arts” in 1868.

Etching with drypoint on grey chine collé (China) on fine laid paper (with partial watermark).

Size: (sheet) 27.4 x 17.8 cm; (faint platemark) 12.5 x 9.8 cm; (chine collé) 11.1 x 8.7 cm.

Signed in plate in reverse at lower left: “J. L. Gerôme”.

Beraldi 1 (Henri Béraldi [1885–1892], “Les graveurs du 19e siècles: guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes”, Paris); IFF 3 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Départment des Estampes 1939–, “Inventaire du Fonds Français: Graveurs du XVIIe siècle”, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print:

“Egyptian man seen half-length, facing front, smoking a long pipe; proof before letter

Etching on chine collé” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1865-0114-82).

See also the excellent description offered by The Art of the Print:

http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/gerome_jean_leon_lefumeuregyptien.htm.

Note that this is the second impression of this etching by Gérôme that I have listed. The previous impression has been sold.

Condition: a faultless impression with generous margins in near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, losses, abrasions, significant stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this jewel-like impression of the highest quality for AU$396 in total (currently US$289.96/EUR246.96/GBP209.44 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 acquiring this sensitively executed etching by the “key exponent of Orientalism in nineteenth-century France” (BM bibl. Gérôme), please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Paul Rajon’s etching, “After the Masquerade”, c.1884, after Gérôme

Paul Rajon (aka Paul Adolphe Rajon) (1843–1888)

“After the Masquerade”, c.1884, after Jean-Léon Gérôme’s (1824–1904) painting, “Suite d'un bal masqué”, 1857, in the Musée Condé in Chantilly (France), published in “The Art Journal”, vol. 46, p. 333, by J S Virtue & Co (1820s–1908) in 1884 in London.

Archive.org offers this volume for online viewing and free-of-charge dowloading (see page 333 for this print in its context):

https://archive.org/details/gri_33125006187682/page/n405/mode/2up/search/Rajon.

Etching on cream coloured wove paper with full margins (as published).

Size: (sheet) 24.2 x 33.8 cm; (image borderline) 15.7 x 22.6 cm; note that the plate is larger than the published page).

Inscribed on plate within the image borderline: (lower left) “JL GEROME PINXT”; (lower right) “Rajon scl”.

Lettered on plate below the image borderline: (left) “PAINTED BY J. L. GERÔME. H.R.A.”; (centre) “AFTER THE MASQUERADE./ LONDON: J. S. VIRTUE & Co. LIMITED.”; (right) “ETCHED BY PAUL RAJON”.

 Beraldi 7 (Henri Beraldi 1885–92, “Les graveurs du 19e siècle; guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes”, vol. 11, Paris, L Conquet, p, 158, cat. no. 7).

The Walters Art Museum offers the following description of Gérôme’s painting—mindful that Gérôme made copies of the original painting in the Musée Condé:

 “In this painting, showing the outcome of a duel after a costume ball, Gérôme replicates, with slight variations, a composition he had executed for the Duc d'Aumale in 1857. It is dawn on a wintry day in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, and Pierrot succumbs in the arms of the Duc de Guise. A Venetian doge examines Pierrot's wound while Domino clasps his head in despair. To the right, the victorious American Indian departs, accompanied by Harlequin” (https://art.thewalters.org/detail/12697/the-duel-after-the-masquerade/).

See also the description of this print from a different edition offered by the British Museum:

https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3485267&page=1&partId=1&searchText=paris%20wounded.

Condition: well-printed, near faultless impression with full margins as published. The sheet is in near pristine condition for its considerable age (i.e. there are no tears, holes, losses, creases, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of use).

I am selling this sensitively executed original etching often reproduced in books as it exemplifies the leaning to romantic images in the 19^th century by showing the grim aftermath of a duel following what must have been an altercation with bruised pride at masquerade ball, for the total cost of AU$190 (currently US$110.22/EUR102.95/GBP94.64 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 visually arresting scene that (to my eyes) captures perfectly the silvery dull light of a winter’s dawn in the Bois de Boulogne—a large park in the 16th arrondissement of Paris—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Jean Léon Gérôme's etching, “Le Fumeur Égyptien”, c.1865

Jean Léon Gérôme (1824-1904)

“Le Fumeur Égyptien” (The Egyptian Smoker), c.1865, proof impression before lettering for publication in “La Gazette des Beaux-Arts” in 1868.

Etching with drypoint on grey chine collé (China) on fine laid paper backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 26.5 x 18.2 cm; (faint platemark) 12.7 x 10.1 cm; (chine collé) 11 x 8.5 cm.

Signed on plate in reverse at lower left: “J. L. Gerôme”.

Beraldi 1885-92 1 (Henri Béraldi [1885–1892], “Les graveurs du 19e siècles: guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes”, Paris); IFF 3 (Bibliothèque Nationale, Départment des Estampes 1939–, “Inventaire du Fonds Français: Graveurs du XVIIe siècle”, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print:

“Egyptian man seen half-length, facing front, smoking a long pipe; proof before letter

Etching on chine collé”.

(https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3367849&partId=1&searchText=Le+fumeur+%25u00e9gyptien&page=1)

See also the description offered by The Art of the Print:

http://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/gerome_jean_leon_lefumeuregyptien.htm

This is the second etching by Gérôme that I have listed; see the earlier post focused on “La Mort de César”: https://www.printsandprinciples.com/2019/06/jean-leon-geromes-etching-la-mort-de.html

Condition: faultless impression with generous margins in pristine condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, losses, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of use). The sheet laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

I am selling this jewel-like impression of the highest quality for AU$396 in total (currently US$277.70/EUR247.76/GBP211.63 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 acquiring this sensitively executed etching by the “key exponent of Orientalism in nineteenth-century France” (BM bibl. Gérôme), 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

Jean Léon Gérôme's etching, “La Mort de César”, 1860–70

Jean Léon Gérôme (1824–1904)

“La Mort de César” (The death of Caesar) (aka “Un Sénateur Romain”), 1860–1870, etched study excuted by Gérôme, based on his pencil drawing “The Dead Caesar“, c1859, in the National Gallery of Art, Washington (see https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.73876.html) for his 1867 painting held by the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore (see https://art.thewalters.org/detail/17030/the-death-of-caesar/). This is a proof impression stamped with Philippe Burty’s seal before publication in Philippe Burty’s (1830–1890) (ed.) “Sonnets et Eaux-Fortes”, published in 1869 by Alphonse Lemerre in Paris, as plate 14, “Un Sénateur Romain”, with a sonnet by Anatole France (1844-1924).

Note: Gérôme’s famous painting of which this etching is a study is reproduced by John Carr Armytage (aka John Charles Armytage) (1802–1897) (see https://wellcomecollection.org/works/z4372cje).

Etching and drypoint on fine wove (China) paper—possibly on chine-collé or with pale plate tone—signed on plate in reverse with red ink-stamp of the former Philippe Burty collection (Lugt 413) on the lower left, backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet cut slightly unevenly) 17.4 x 24.1 cm; (plate) 13.1 x 20 cm; (image borderline) 12.7 x 19.8 cm

For an insightful discussion about this print, see footnote 25 on page 79 of Scott Christopher Allan & Mary G. Morton’s (2010) “Reconsidering Gérôme” (Los Angeles, Getty Trust Publications).

Condition: well-printed proof impression with margins, laid upon a support sheet of fine archival/millennium quality washi paper. There are light pencil notations by a former collector along the lower margin edge. There is also a red collector's seal printed at the lower-left corner of the impression borderline. This seal belongs to the famous writer and editor of the publication in which this etching features. Beyond light surface dustiness, the sheet is in excellent condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains or foxing).

I am selling this etching of the utmost rarity executed by the hand of Gérôme and stamped with the former collection seal of one of the most famous art critics of the 19^th century, for AU$530 (currently US$372.22/EUR327.22/GBP293.08 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 sensitively executed etched study by Gérôme—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