Prints and Principles

Most of the recent posts give details about individual prints and earlier posts discuss some of the subtle principles guiding artists in making images meaningful and memorable. For prints that are unsold, click "Items still available for sale" below. All other prints are no longer available. My contact email is oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com and my Instagram username is @printsandprinciples. I have created a separate blog to show my own work: https://printsandprinciplesjamesbrown.blogspot.com

Showing posts with label Greuze (Jean Baptiste). Show all posts

Tuesday, 10 September 2024

Leopold Flameng, “Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Greuze”, 1862, after Greuze

Léopold Flameng (aka Léopold Joseph Flameng) (1831–1911)

“Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Greuze” (aka “J. B. Greuze (Peint par Lui-Mème)”—after a self-portrait (c.1760) of the painter and draughtsman, Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805), previously in the collection of M. Lacaze (as inscribed in the plate) and now in the Louvre collection (see https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010059521), 1862, printed by Drouard (as lettered in the plate or possibly a typographical error for the printery, Imprimerie Drouart [fl.1824–1861)]?), published in Paris in the art periodical, “La Gazette des Beaux-Arts” in 1862 (2^nd vol.), page 402.

Etching on chine collé on wove paper trimmed with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 22.4 x 16.7 cm; (plate) 17.5 x 13.3 cm; (image borderline) 12.2 x 9.4 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “LEOPOLD FLAMENG AQUA F. ET DEL./ Gazette des Beaux-Arts”; (centre) “J. B. GREUZE/ PEINT PAR LUI-MÈME”; (RIGHT) “IMP DROUARD/ Cabinet de M. Lacaze”.

Hippert & Linnig 159 (T Hippert & J Linnig 1879, “Le peintre-graveur hollandais et belge du 19me siècle”, vol. 1, Brussels, p. 300, cat. no. 159); Beraldi 342 (Henri Béraldi 1887, “Les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle: Guide de l'Amateur d'Estampes Modernes: DORÉ–GAVARD”, vol. VI, Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, p. 127, cat. no. 342).

See also the description of this print offered by the Rijksmuseum: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.110321.

Condition: a strong and well-printed (near faultless) impression laid onto a sheet 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 significant stains.

I am selling this superbly executed—to my eyes, a true masterwork—translation of Greuze’s self-portrait in an exquisitely fine web of crossed hatched lines, for the total cost of AU$239 (currently US$159.14/EUR144/GBP121.45 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$239) as this is my currency.

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

Friday, 23 February 2024

Edmond Hédouin’s etching, “L'Étude”, 1870, after Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Edmond Hédouin (aka Pierre Edmond Alexandre Hédouin) (1820–1889)

“L'Étude” (aka “Le Petit Mathématicien” [see https://archive.org/details/jbgreuzeart00norm/page/89/mode/1up]),1870, after a painting by Jean Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805), printed in Paris by Alfred Salmon (aka Adolphe Ardail; Salmon & Ardail; Alfred Fortuné Salmon) (fl.1863–1894) and published in the art periodical, “Gazette des Beaux-Arts”, January 1870, page 6 (see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2030922/f8.double).

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

Size: (sheet) 26.8 x 17.1 cm; (plate) 11.4 x 9.5 cm; (image borderline) 9 x 7.5 cm.

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

Beraldi 42 (Henri Beraldi 1889, “Les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle: GUÉRIN - LACOSTE”, vol. 8, Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, p. 70, cat. no. 42 [ see https://archive.org/details/lesgraveursdu19e08berauoft/page/70/mode/1up]).

The Musée d’art et d’histoire de la Ville de Genève offers a description of this print: https://www.mahmah.ch/collection/oeuvres/letude/e-2021-0207.

Condition: an exceptionally fine and well-printed impression with generous margins in a pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this finely executed and very beautiful etching of a young girl looking (to my eyes) a little distracted while holding a divider calliper, for AU$201 (currently US$132/EUR121.89/GBP104.21 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 exquisite etching, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.