Eugène André Champollion, “Neptune and Amymone”, c. 1896, after Boucher

Eugène André Champollion (1848–1901)

“Neptune and Amymone”, c. 1896, after the painting by François Boucher (1703–1770) in the Palais de Trianon (as inscribed in the plate), printed and published in Paris by Albert Quantin (1850–1930).

Although the IFF does not describe this print by Champollion, the date that I have attributed to it is based on two other etchings by Champollion after Boucher, “Le Nid” (IFF 67) and “La Guirlande” (IFF 68), that were both executed in 1896 (see Jean Adhémar 1949, “Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800: CABANE–CICÉRI”, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes, vol. 4, p. 276: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5510949t/f298).

Etching on fine laid paper with wide margins as published.

Size: (sheet) 45 x 31 cm; (platemark); 31.5 x 23.9 cm; (image borderline) 25.8 x 19.5 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) E. Champollion d’après Boucher”; (centre) “NEPTUNE ET AMYMONE”; (right) “A. Quantin. Imp. Edit.”

Condition: a strong and near faultless impression with generous margins. The sheet is in an almost pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, or signs of handling.

Price & Shipping: AU$226 (approx. US$147.73/ €127.49/ £112.30), including worldwide express shipping. Import duties are the buyer’s responsibility.

If you're interested in purchasing this finely crafted and rare etching, which depicts Neptune with his trident raised—and notably features a cupid somewhat awkwardly balanced upon it! —scaring away a satyr attempting to seduce the beautiful Amymone, please contact me at oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com. I will gladly provide a secure and convenient PayPal invoice for your purchase.

Henry Augustin Valentin, “Le Christ Mort”, 1879, after Hans Holbein the Younger (2nd copy)

Henry Augustin Valentin (1822–1886)

“Le Christ Mort” (title inscribed on plate), 1879, after Hans Holbein the Younger’s (c.1497–1543) oil and tempera painting, “The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb” (1520–22) in the Musée de Bâle (Öffentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel), printed by Albert Quantin (1850–1930) and published in 1879 in Paris in the “Gazette des Beaux-Arts”, vol. 44, insert between pp. 98–99.

Regarding Holbein’s painting, Wikipedia cites the interesting proposal by the art historians, Oscar Bätschmann and Pascal Griener, that Christ's raised and extended middle finger appears to "reach towards the beholder", while his strands of hair "look as if they are breaking through the surface of the painting" (Oskar Bätschmann, & Pascal Griener 1999, “Hans Holbein”, London, Reaktion Books, p. 88 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Body_of_the_Dead_Christ_in_the_Tomb]).

Etching on wove paper with flatten gatefold and full margins as published, backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 28 x 35.7 cm; (plate) 12.8 x 35 cm; (outer image borderline) 7.9 x 32 cm.

Lettered in plate along the upper edge of the image: “IESVS·NAZARENVS·REX·IVDAEORVM” (Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews).

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Hans Holbein pinx/ Gazette des Beaux-Arts”; (centre) “LE CHRIST MORT/ (Musée de Bâle); (right) “H. Valentin sculp/ Imp. A Quantin”.

Condition: a richly inked and near faultless impression with generous margins laid upon a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper (to enable the gatefold crease to be flattened). The sheet is in a near pristine condition with no tears, holes, abrasions, foxing or significant stains.

I am selling this visually arresting etching of Holbein’s famous painting of Christ’s entombed body stretched by crucifixion with eyes and mouth open, for the total cost of AU$246 (currently US$163.46/EUR151.54/GBP126.47 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. Note that payment is in Australian dollars (AU$246) as this is my currency.

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

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

This print has been sold

John Watkins, “Le Pape Boniface VIII”, 1879

John Watkins (1854? –1908)

“Le Pape Boniface VIII” (aka “Le Pape Boniface VIII. Buste Italien en bronze attribué au Bernin” [title inscribed in plate]), 1879, after the bronze by Domenico Guidi (1625–1701), “Bust of Pope Alexander VIII”, c.1690, in the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (see https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O151956/pope-alexander-viii-bust-domenico-guidi/)—not after a bronze attributed to Bernini/Bernin (1598–1680) as inscribed in the plate—printed by Albert Quantin (aka Ancienne Maison Quantin; Maison Quantin; Albert Marie Jérôme Quantin) (1850–1930) and published in Paris in the art periodical, “L'Art”, 1879.

Etching with engraving and plate tone on cream laid paper (Arches watermark) with wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 43.9 x 29.7 cm; (plate) 26 x 18.7 cm; (image borderline) 24.4 x 16.8 cm.

Lettered in plate above the image borderline: (centre) “(South Kensington Museum)”.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “L'Art”; (centre) “LE PAPE BONIFACE VIII/ Buste Italien en bronze attribué au Bernin”; (right) “John Watkins aquaf/ Imp. A. Quantin”.

The British Museum offers a description of this print (not reproduced): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1880-0214-133.

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed (faultless) impression with generously wide margins showing no sign of wear to the printing plate. Beyond slight unevenness to the colour of the sheet, the sheet is in an excellent (near pristine) condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains or signs of handling.

I am selling this stunningly strong etching of a bronze bust of Pope Alexander VIII, for AU$214 (currently US$139.47/EUR129.38/GBP110.88at 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 exceptionally fine etching showing the highest order of skill in its execution, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Albert Paul Guilmet’s etching, “Man Smoking a Pipe at a Window”, c.1873–76

Albert Paul Guilmet (1879–1922)

“Man Smoking a Pipe at a Window”, c.1873–76, plate 45, printed in Paris by Albert Marie Jérôme Quantin (1850–1930), possibly as a supplement to the art revue “Paris à l'Eau-Forte” (1873-76) (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_%C3%A0_l%27eau-forte#Annexes).

Etching on fine cream laid paper.

Size: (sheet) 18.5 x 25.5 cm; (plate) 10.8 x 14.5 cm.

Inscribed in plate: (upper left) “45”; (upper left within window frame) “A Guilmet”; (below window frame) “Imp A Quantin”. Note that there are other inscriptions within the image, such as within the billowing smoke near the pipe and on the figure’s coat at right, but I am unable to decipher what is written.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression with wide margins in an excellent condition with no tears, folds, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this curiously interesting etching showing a figure smoking his pipe at a window—to my eyes this print references Adriaen van Ostade’s prints of figures at windows, for example, “The Smoker at the Window”, 1667? (https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/6724.26/)—for the total cost of AU$223 (currently US$145.62/EUR135.17/GBP115.32 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 creatively inventive etching—note how the smoker’s right arm supporting the pipe is shown projecting far past the window frame and how the smoke billowing from the pipe to the left is pictorially echoed by the ivy vine spreading to the right—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Henri Lefort’s etching, “Érasme”, c1879, after Holbein

Henri Lefort (aka Henri Émile Lefort) (1852–1916)

“Érasme”, c1879, illustration to Paul Mantz’s (1821–1895) “Hans Holbein” (insert between pages 60 and 61, published in 1879 in Paris by the Société Française d'éditions d'Art, printed by Albert Quantin (aka Albert Marie Jérôme Quantin; Ancienne Maison Quantin) (1850–1930), after the painting by Hans Holbein the Younger (1497/8–1543), “Portrait of Erasmus”, 1523, in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hans_Holbein_d._J._-_Erasmus_-_Louvre.jpg).

Archive.org offers an online view of the publication in which this etching features: see https://archive.org/details/gri_33125001460142/page/n128/mode/2up.

Mantz (1879) in the footnote to page 60 in this publication, proposes that Holbein made a silverpoint and chalk study from direct observation of Erasmus’ hands. What is shamefully interesting for me, is that Erasmus—arguably one of the greatest scholars of the northern Renaissance—had what all great thinkers have (in translation) “slightly bitten nails.”

Etching printed in a warm black ink on cream laid paper with full margins as published.

Size: (sheet) 41.8 x 29 cm; (plate) 25.4 x 21.6 cm; (image borderline) 21 x 17.2 cm.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “H LEFORT d'après HOLBEIN”; (right) “Imp. A. Quantin”.

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed (faultless) impression in pristine condition (i.e., there are no tears, holes, folds, losses, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of use) with generously wide margins as published.

I am selling this exceptionally fine etching of Holbein’s famous portrait of the Dutch philosopher and Catholic theologian, Erasmus (aka Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus), for AU$207 in total (currently US$149.82/EUR132.60/GBP111.47 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 superb, museum quality impression of a seldom seen etching on the art market, 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