Jean Pierre Simon, “Study of a Crouching Man”, late 1700s, before 1797, after Charles Le Brun

Jean Pierre Simon (aka John Peter Simon, the Younger) (pre1750–c.1810)

“Study of a Crouching Man” (aka “Completed Study of a Man Crouching on all Fours”), late 1700s, before 1797, plate 36 from the ninth book of prints (possibly showcasing works from “la Galerie du Museum de France” mentioned in the inscription?), inspired by the altarpiece painting, “The Nativity” by Charles Le Brun (aka Charles Lebrun) (1619–1690), published in Paris by Pierre-François Basan (1723–1797).

Stipple engraving on laid paper trimmed along the platemark and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 23.1 x 31.8 cm; (image borderline) 18.9 x 29.2 cm

Lettered in plate: (upper left) “9^e. Cahier”; (lower left) “C. Le Brun pinx.”; (lower centre) “Etude d'Homme,/ d'après le Tableau de la Nativité, par Le Brun, de la Galerie du Museum de France./ a Paris. chez Basan, M^d. d’Estampes, Rue dt Hôtel Serpente.”; (upper right) “N^o. 36.”: (lower right) “J. P. Simon del. & Sculp.”

The Academy Fine Arts of Puebla offer a description of this print: http://www.bellasartespuebla.buap.mx:8181/apps/estampas/estampa-ficha.xql?cat=Cristianismo&id=ABA-0419.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression trimmed along the platemark and laid onto a support of millennium quality washi paper providing wide margins. The sheet has surface marks and a pale stain in the margin at right, otherwise the sheet is in a fair to good condition with no tears, holes or significant stains.

I am selling this marvellous example of stippling by one of the leading British artists to use this technique—see an excellent account of Jean Pierre Simon’s work offered by Art of the Print: https://www.artoftheprint.com/artistpages/simon_jean_pierre_nativity.htm—for AU$232 (equivalent to approximately US$145.87, EUR 136.33, or GBP 113.63 at the time of listing) and includes Express Mail Service (EMS) postage and handling to any worldwide destination. Please note that any import duties or taxes levied by the destination country are the responsibility of the buyer and are not included in the purchase price. Payment is requested in Australian dollars (AU$232).

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

Nicolas Tardieu’s etching with engraving, “Triumph of Constantine over Maxentius”, 1715, after Charles Le Brun

Nicolas Tardieu (aka Nicolas Henri Tardieu) (1674–1749)

“Triumph of Constantine over Maxentius” (aka “Triomf van Constantijn over Maxentius”; “Constantini triumphus devicto Maxentius”; “Triomphe de Constantin apres sa victoire sur Maxence”), 1715, after the design by Charles Le Brun (aka Charles Lebrun) (1619–1690), from the series, “Werken van Charles le Brun” (The work of Charles Le Brun), published in Paris by Nicolas Tardieu with royal privilege.

Etching with engraving on laid paper trimmed around the image borderline and the lines of text, backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 28.5 x 59.6 cm; (image borderline) 25.2 x 59.6 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Car, le Brun invenit”, (centre in two columns of text) “CONSTANTINI TRIUMPHUS DEVICTO MAXENTIUS … le monde le predicateur.”; (right) “N. Tardieu ex.”

The Hood Museum of Art offers a description of this print that includes the full lines of lettering: https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/objects/2014.73.91#. Note also that the Hood Museum attributes this print to Gerard Audran (1640– 1703) with Nicolas Tardieu as the printer.

See the description of this print offered by the Rijksmuseum: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.417896.

LeBlanc 42-53 (Charles Le Blanc, “Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes: contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations”, vol. 4, Paris, p. 5, cat. nos. 43–53 [“Histoire de Constantin”]).

Condition: a strong impression, trimmed around the image borderline and text and laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper. The sheet has a flattened centrefold and there are numerous restorations in the text.

I am selling this magnificent and very large etching (with engraving) executed with amazing skill to capture the complexity of this Baroque vision of a Roman triumphal procession, for AU$298 in total (currently US$199.18/EUR180.22/GBP158.65 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 grand manner print, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Nicolas Tardieu’s etching with engraving, “Battle of the Milvian Bridge”, 1715, after Charles Le Brun and Rubens

Nicolas Tardieu (aka Nicolas Henri Tardieu) (1674–1749)

“Battle of the Milvian Bridge” (aka “Slag bij de Milvische brug”; “Bataille de Constantin contre le Tyran Maxence”; “Constantini pugna contra Maxentium Tyrannum”), 1715, after the design by Charles Le Brun (aka Charles Lebrun) (1619–1690) and after Peter Paul Rubens’ (aka Petrus Paulus Rubenius) (1577–1640) painting (with significant differences), from the series, “Werken van Charles le Brun” (The work of Charles le Brun), published by Nicolas Tardieu in Paris with royal privilege.

Note that Girard Audran (aka Gérard Audran) (1640–1703) also made an etching with engraving of the same composition in 1666. The British Museum offers the following description of the portrayed scene: “The Victory of Constantine over Maxentius (28 October AD 312); the bridge is on the right with Constantine in profile and raised spear riding onto it, amid a vast melee of soldiers and horses” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1842-0806-167-a-c).

Etching with engraving on laid paper trimmed around the image borderline and the lines of text, backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 28.7 x 59.5 cm; (image borderline) 25 x 59.5 cm.

Lettered below the image borderline: (left) “Carol. le Brun inv.”; (left of centre) “CONSTANTINI PUGNA CONTRA MAXENTIUM TYRANNU/ V. Kal. Novembris anno Christi 312,/ CONSTANTIN us quum de extinguenda […] suis exitum invenit./ A Paris chez N. Tardieu rue S^t. Jacques au Mecenas. Avec Privilege du Roy.”; (right of centre) “BATAILLE DE CONSTANTIN CONTRE LE TYRAN MAXENCE/ Donnée le 28 Octobre l’an 312 de Jesus Christ./ CONSTANTIN, confirmé par la vision […] de ses crimes.”; (right) “N. Tardieu excudit 1715.”

LeBlanc 42–53 (Charles Le Blanc 1854-1888, “Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes: contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations”, vol. 4, Paris, p. 5, cat. nos. 42–53).

See also the description of this print offered by the Rijksmuseum: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.417895.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression trimmed along the image borderline and retaining the lines of text below. There are spots of abrasion (especially in the lower margin) that have been restored. The sheet has been laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper providing wide margins.

I am selling this magnificent and very large etching (with engraving) executed with amazing skill to capture the complexity of the scene—note that the portrayed battle was more of a massacre than a combat and the grimness is summed up by the kneeling figure in the centre-foreground who is not only beheading a fallen horseman but is also holding in his mouth the severed head of a previous victim (following the Roman principle that soldiers were rewarded by the number of adversaries’ heads of that they collected)—for AU$374 in total (currently US$249.98/EUR226.18/GBP199.11 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 grand manner print, 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 Audran’s engraving, “Man Clinging to the Edge of a Boat”, 1687

Jean Audran (1667–1756)

“Man Clinging to the Edge of a Boat” (aka “Homme se cramponnant au bord d'une barque”; “Man boomt een roeiboot” [Rijksmuseum title]), 1687, lifetime impression of plate 4 from the series of six engravings, “Six Studies from the Battles of Alexander the Great” (Le Blanc I.103.124–129), after a painting by Charles Le Brun (aka Charles Lebrun) (1619–1690), published by Jacques Chéreau (1688–1776).

Engraving on laid paper, lifetime impression before lettering, trimmed with a small margin around the image borderline and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (support sheet) 23.8 x 26.5 cm; (sheet)10.8 x 13.8 cm; (image borderline) 10 x 13.4 cm.

State i (of ii?) before lettering with the artist’s name and date.

LeBlanc 127 (Charles Le Blanc 1854, “Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels”, Paris, Imprimerie Guiraudet et Jouaust, vol. 1, p. 103, cat. no. 127); IFF 80 (“Inventaire du fonds français: graveurs du XVIIe siècle”, vol. 1, Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, p. 165, cat. no. 80).

See also the descriptions of this print offered by the Rijksmuseum and the Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum (Braunschweig) including a file of the print allowing close examination of the lettered publication details: http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.417769; https://nat.museum-digital.de/object/851736; http://diglib.hab.de/varia/haum/audran-j-ab3-0047/max/000001.jpg. 

Condition: a strong and well-printed (near faultless) impression, trimmed slightly unevenly with a narrow margin around the image borderline and laid onto archival (millennium quality) washi paper. Beyond minor foxing, the sheet is in a good condition for its considerable age with no tears, holes, folds or significant stains.

I am selling this small and superbly executed engraving of a man “legging”/hauling himself into a small boat for the total cost of AU$244 (currently US$171.95/EUR157.74/GBP141.04 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 amazing engraving—note the high degrees of control and precision shown in the linework rendering the figure—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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Pierre Langlumé’s lithograph, “Ange”, 1825, after Charles Le Brun

(From the circle of, or by) Pierre Langlumé (1790–? [fl.1818–1830])

“La Magdeleine”, 1825, lithograph printed by Pierre Langlumé and published in Paris by Sazerac & Duval (fl.c1824–1827) after an intermediary drawing by C. Deby of a detail in reverse of Charles Le Brun’s (aka Charles Lebrun) (1619–1690) painting, “Le Crucifix aux Anges” (1661–1686), now in Versailles and in the collection of the Louvre (INV 2886 ; MR 1922) (see https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl010060604).

Lithograph in the crayon manner printed in black on chine collé  on wove paper with the publisher’s blind-stamp at lower centre.

Size: (support sheet) 54.4 x 41.8 cm; (sheet) 39.2 x 28.5 cm; (chine collé) 33.9 x 26 cm.

Lettered in the stone below the image: (left) “C. Deby del.”; (centre) “Ange,/ d’après le tableau de Le Brun./ (Le Crucifix aux Anges)/ Chez Sazerac et Duval, Passage de l'Opéra, Escalier A.”; (right) “Lith. de Langlumé”.

Blind-stamped with the publisher’s seal at lower centre.

Condition: a near faultless impression laid upon a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper. The sheet is in an excellent (near pristine) condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains or foxing.

I am selling this sensitively executed and very beautiful crayon-manner lithograph showing a detail of a angel from Charles Le Brun’s painting, “Le Crucifix aux Anges”, for AU$234 (currently US$163.36/EUR154.63/GBP132.88 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 rare lithograph—note that I have been unable to find a copy of it in any of the major museum collections—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.