Stefano della Bella's etching, “Plate 6: Eight Vases”, c1646

Stefano della Bella (1610–1664)

“Plate 6: Eight Vases”, c1646 (BM attribution of date), the final plate from the series of six etchings, “Raccolta di vasi diversi” (Collection of different vases), originally published by François Langlois (1588–1647) in the first state and later by Pierre Mariette II (1634–1716) in the second state.

Etching on fine laid paper trimmed close to the plate-mark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet trimmed unevenly) 8.6 x 20.2 cm.

Lettered and numbered on the plate below the image: (left) “Stef. de la Bella inuent fecit”; (centre) “6”.

State iii (of iii) with the publication details (originally for Langlois and later Mariette) erased.

De Vesme/Massar 1971 1050.III (A de Vesme, revised by Phyllis D Massar 1971, “Stefano della Bella: Catalogue Raisonné”, New York, p. 159 [text], p, 230 [ill.], cat. no. 1050); Jombert (Della Bella) 129 (Charles Antoine Jombert 1772, “Essai d'un catalogue de l'oeuvre d'Etienne de la Belle, peintre et graveur florentin”, Paris, p. 132, cat. no. 129); Orn Cat II 2004. 1915 (Peter Fuhring; transl. from the Dutch by Jennifer Kilian and Katy Kist 2004, “Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: the seventeenth century”, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Sound and Vision, vol. 1, p. 330, cat. no. 1915).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print:

“Plate 6; horizontal ornament panel of eight vases, the central vase in the form of an hourglass adorned with two grinning skulls crowned with laurels; the other vases decorated with snakes, bas-reliefs, heads or foliage” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1871-0513-354).

See also the descriptions of this print offered by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard Museums of Art and the Rijksmuseum: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/397822: https://hvrd.art/o/57185; http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.77541.

Condition: a strong impression trimmed slightly unevenly along the plate-mark (or slightly within) and backed with a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

I am selling this rare ornamental panel featuring different vases—note the clepsydra (sand clock) at centre with its vanitas design of laurel crowned skulls and bone supports—for AU$232 (currently US$180.51/EUR147.40/GBP127.63 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 etched panel exemplifying the Baroque period style, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Jacques Callot’s etchings, “Rising of Dawn” and “Noah's Ark”, c1628

Jacques Callot (1592–1635)

“Rising of Dawn” and “Noah's Ark” (“Le Lever de l’aurore” and “L'arche de Noé”), c1628, plates 3 and 21 from a series of 27 plates, “Vita Beatae Mariae Vir. Matris Dei emblematib[us” (“The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Mother of God, represented in emblems”) first published in 1628 by Antoine Charlot (fl.c1628–1635) in Nancy and later (as with this impression) in 1646 by François Langlois (aka François Langlois, il Ciartres) (1588–1647) as an illustration to François Rennel’s (1583–1649) text in “Vie de la Mère de Diev representée par emblesme” (see https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2017/03/15/callots-vie-de-la-mere-de-dieu/ & https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-0713-390).

Etchings on laid paper with thread margins around the platemark and backed with separate support sheets.

Size of “Rising of Dawn”: (sheet) 6.6 x 8.6 cm; (plate) 6.3 x 8.5 cm; (image borderline) 6 x 8.1 cm; numbered on plate: (upper right) “III”.

Size of “Noah's Ark”: (sheet) 6.8 x 6.8 cm; (plate) 6.3 x 8.3 cm; (image borderline) 6 x 8.1 cm; numbered on plate: (upper right) “XXI”.

State ii (of ii) with the addition of the plate numbers.

Lieure 629 ii and 647 ii (Jules Lieure 1989, “Jacques Callot: Catalogue Raisonné de L’Œuvre Gravré”, San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, [vol. 1, text] pp. 100–101, 105); Meaume 210 ii and 228 ii.

Both prints are no longer available

Jacques Callot’s etchings, “The Sun and the Rain” & “The Two Crowns”, c1628

Jacques Callot (1592–1635)

“The Sun and the Rain” and “The Two Crowns” (“Le soleil et la pluie” and “Les Deux Couronnes”), c1628, plates 24 and 25 from a series of 27 plates, “Vita Beatae Mariae Vir. Matris Dei emblematib[us” (“The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary the Mother of God, represented in emblems”) first published in 1628 by Antoine Charlot (fl.c1628–1635) in Nancy and later (as with this impression) in 1646 by François Langlois (aka François Langlois, il Ciartres) (1588–1647) as an illustration to François Rennel’s (1583–1649) text in “Vie de la Mère de Diev representée par emblesme” (see https://graphicarts.princeton.edu/2017/03/15/callots-vie-de-la-mere-de-dieu/ & https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-0713-390).

Etchings on laid paper with narrow margins around the platemark and backed with separate support sheets.

Size of “The Sun and the Rain”: (sheet) 6.7 x 8.7 cm; (plate) 6.4 x 8.5 cm; (image borderline) 6 x 8.1 cm; numbered on plate: (upper right) “XXIIII”.

Size of “The Two Crowns”: (sheet) 7 x 8.9 cm; (plate) 6.4 x 8.5 cm; (image borderline) 6 x 8.1 cm; numbered on plate: (upper right) “XXV”; hand inscribed in ink: (lower left) “4”.

State ii (of ii) with the addition of the plate numbers.

Lieure 650 ii and 651 ii (Jules Lieure 1989, “Jacques Callot: Catalogue Raisonné de L’Œuvre Gravré”, San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, [vol. 1, text] pp. 105–06); Meaume 231 ii and 232 ii.

The British Museum offers the following description of “The Sun and the Rain”:

“Landscape with, on the left, rain falling on a large rock and, on the right, the sun shining over a city; with letterpress text cut off”

(https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-0713-438).

My understanding of this print (and please forgive me if I am wrong) is that the subject symbolises the natural link between moisture being raised to the heavens by the sun so that it can later fall as rain—the connotation of this symbolism in terms of this illustration in the series (again by my understanding) is that the Virgin Mary’s assumption to Heaven is like the earth being nourished. (Again, I may be completely wrong about this reading.)

The British Museum offers the following description of “The Two Crowns”:

“Landscape with, on the ground, two hands holding a laurel wreath and, hovering over, a crown supported by cherubs' heads; with letterpress text cut off”

(https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1861-0713-440).

My understanding of the symbolism of this print in terms of the other prints in the series (apologies if I am wrong) is that the winged cherubim supporting the crown and the hands supporting the laurel wreath are affirmations of the Virgin Mary’s “victory”. Mindful that the previous print in the series, “The Sun and the Rain”, could be read to mean that the assumption of the Virgin Mary is like the earth being nourished. (Once more I need to state that I may be completely wrong in my thoughts.)

Condition: strong impressions trimmed with thread margins and laid on a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper. There are minor marks on “The Sun and the Rain” and “The Two Crowns” has a hand-inscribed number in ink, otherwise the sheets are in a good condition with no tears, folds, holes, abrasions, losses, or foxing.

I am selling this fascinating pair of emblem prints executed by one of the most famous of the old masters for the total cost of AU$420 for the pair (currently US$319/EUR261.10/GBP235.54 at the time of 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.

If you are interested in purchasing these small but graphically arresting etchings from the early 1600s, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Stefano della Bella's etching, “Plate 4; horizontal ornament panel of eight vases”, c.1646

Stefano della Bella (1610–1664)

“Plate 4; horizontal ornament panel of eight vases”, c.1646 (BM attribution of date), from the series, “Raccolta di vasi diversi” (Collection of different vases), originally published by François Langlois (1588–1647) with privilege in the first state and later by Pierre Mariette II (1634–1716) in the second state.

Etching on fine laid paper trimmed along, or slightly within, the plate-mark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet trimmed unevenly) 8.1 x 20.5 cm.

Lettered on plate below the image: (left) “Stef. de la Bella inuent fecit”; (right) “cum Priuil. Regis Christ."

Numbered on plate below the image: (centre) “3”.

State iii (of iii) with the publication details (originally for Langlois and later Mariette) erased.

De Vesme/Massar 1971 1048.III (A de Vesme, revised by Phyllis D Massar 1971, “Stefano della Bella: Catalogue Raisonné”, New York, p. 159, cat. no. 1048); Jombert (Della Bella) 1772.129 (Charles Antoine Jombert 1772, “Essai d'un catalogue de l'oeuvre d'Etienne de la Belle, peintre et graveur florentin”, Paris, p. 132, cat. no. 129); Orn Cat II 2004. 1913 (Peter Fuhring; transl. from the Dutch by Jennifer Kilian and Katy Kist 2004, “Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: the seventeenth century”, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Sound and Vision, vol. 1, p. 329, cat. no. 1913).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print:

“Plate 4; horizontal ornament panel of eight vases, all filled with flowers, including one at centre with a nymph and satyr supporting the central part, one to left with swans as handles and one behind to right whose base is supported by a lion. c.1646.”

(https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1516882&partId=1&people=132763&peoA=132763-2-60&page=2)

See also the description of this print offered by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

(https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/397818?&searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=Stefano+della+Bella+Raccolta+di+vasi+diversi&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=10)

the Harvard Museum of Art

(https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/57227)

and the Rijksmuseum (http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.collect.77542).

Condition: crisp impression in good condition but with a small chip at the upper right edge, trimmed unevenly along the plate-mark (or slightly within) and backed with a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

I am selling this rare ornamental panel exemplifying the Baroque period style for AU$220 (currently US$153.49/EUR136.62/GBP117.99 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 etched panel from the early 1600s, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Stefano della Bella's etching, “Plate 3: horizontal ornament panel of seven vases”, c.1646

Stefano della Bella (1610–1664)

“Plate 3: horizontal ornament panel of seven vases”, c.1646 (BM attribution of date), from the series, “Raccolta di vasi diversi” (Collection of different vases), originally published by François Langlois (1588–1647) with privilege in the first state and later by Pierre Mariette II (1634–1716) in the second state.

Etching on fine laid paper trimmed along, or slightly within, the plate-mark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet trimmed unevenly) 8.5 x 20.5 cm.

Lettered on plate below the image: (left) “Stef. de la Bella inuent fecit”.

Numbered on plate below the image: (centre) “3”.

State iii (of iii) with the publication details (originally for Langlois and later Mariette) and privilege erased.

De Vesme/Massar 1971 1047.III (A de Vesme, revised by Phyllis D Massar 1971, “Stefano della Bella: Catalogue Raisonné”, New York, p. 159, cat. no. 1047); Jombert (Della Bella) 1772.129 (Charles Antoine Jombert 1772, “Essai d'un catalogue de l'oeuvre d'Etienne de la Belle, peintre et graveur florentin”, Paris, p. 132, cat. no. 129); Orn Cat II 2004. 1912 (Peter Fuhring; transl. from the Dutch by Jennifer Kilian and Katy Kist 2004, “Ornament prints in the Rijksmuseum II: the seventeenth century”, Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum Sound and Vision, vol. 1, p. 329, cat. no. 1912).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print:

“Plate 3; horizontal ornament panel of seven vases, including one at centre formed of three children supporting three ewers, one to left with handles in the form of lion heads, and one to right with handles in the form of swan necks. c.1646.”

(https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1516889&partId=1&people=132763&peoA=132763-2-60&page=2)

See also the description of this print offered by the Metropolitan Museum of Art

(https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/397818?&searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=Stefano+della+Bella+Raccolta+di+vasi+diversi&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=10)

the Harvard Museum of Art

(https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/57164)

and the Rijksmuseum (http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.collect.77544). 

Condition: crisp impression in excellent condition (i.e. there are no tears, folds, holes, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of use), trimmed unevenly along the plate-mark (or slightly within) and backed with a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

I am selling this rare ornamental panel exemplifying the Baroque period style for AU$220 (currently US$153.49/EUR136.62/GBP117.99 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 etched panel from the early 1600s, 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