Auguste-Hilaire Léveillé’s wood-engraving, “Saint Jean-Baptiste”, 1898, after Rodin

Auguste-Hilaire Léveillé (1840–1900)

“Saint Jean-Baptiste”, 1898, wood-engraving after the bronze, “Buste de Saint Jean-Baptiste”, 1879, by Auguste Rodin (aka Pierre Auguste Rodin) (1840–1917) in the Musée du Luxembourg, printed by H. de Banos (fl.c1898–1904 [and later?])  and published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 1^st May 1898, inserted between pages 422 and 423.

Wood-engraving printed in black on buff coloured wove paper with full margins backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 27 x 18.2 cm; (image borderline) 20.8 x 14.6 cm.

lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Rodin inv./ GAZETTE DES BEAUX-ARTS”; (centre) “SAINT JEAN-BAPTISTE/ (Musée du Luxembourg)”; (right) “Léveillé sc./ Imp. H. DE BANOS”.

Condition: a strong and well-printed (near faultless) impression showing little or no sign of wear to the printing plate. The sheet is in a near pristine condition and laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper.

I am selling this incredibly finely executed wood-engraving after Rodin’s sculpture, for AU$186 (currently US$124.32/EUR112.49/GBP99.02 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 engraved tonal translation of Rodin’s sculpture into a web of fine lines, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Note that I have listed another wood-engraving by Léveillé after Rodin that is still available at the time of this listing: https://www.printsandprinciples.com/2022/11/auguste-leveilles-wood-engraving.html.

This print has been sold 

Auguste Léveillé’s wood engraving, “Eustache de Saint-Pierre”, after Rodin

Auguste Léveillé (aka Auguste Hilaire Léveillé) (1840–1900)

“Eustache de Saint-Pierre” (aka “Un des Bourgeois de Calais: Figure du monument érigé à Calais”), 1895, after Auguste Rodin’s (aka Pierre Auguste Rodin) (1840–1917) bronze, “Eustache de Saint-Pierre”, from the sculpture group, “The Burghers of Calais”, printed by Dradger et Lesieur (1886–c1908) and published in Paris in the “Gazette des Beaux-Arts”, 1895, opposite page 114 (see https://archive.org/details/gazettedesbeauxa314umass/page/n130/mode/2up).

The Rodin Musée offers a description of a related wood engraving of the same sculpture: https://collections.musee-rodin.fr/fr/museum/rodin/eustache-de-saint-pierre-les-bourgeois-de-calais-d-apres-rodin/G.08268.

Wood engraving printed on buff coloured wove paper with full margins as published.

Size: (sheet) 28 x 18.9 cm; (image borderline) 21.8 x 12.4 cm.

Inscribed in plate within the image borderline: (lower left) “A Leveille”.

Lettered below the image borderline: (left) Sculpté par A. Rodin/ Gazette des Beaux-Arts”; (centre) “UN DES BOURGEOIS DE CALAIS/ Figure du monument érigé à Calais” (One of the Burghers of Calais/ Figure from the monument erected in Calais); (right) “Gravé sur bois par Léveillé./ Imp. Dradger et Lesieur.”

Condition: a well-printed impression in pristine condition as published with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of handling.

I am selling this finely executed wood engraving of Rodin’s bronze, “Eustache de Saint-Pierre”, from the famous sculpture group, “The Burghers of Calais”, for AU$176 (currently US$114.29/EUR113.52/GBP99.03 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 small and sensitively engraved tonal translation of Rodin’s sculpture into a web of fine lines, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.