Léon
Bonnat (aka
Léon Joseph Florentin Bonnat) (1833–1922)
“Velasquez”
(aka
“Vélasquez d’après lui-même dans ‘Les Ménines’” [in
Spanish, “'Las Meninas'']), 1898, after Diego Velasquez’s (aka Diego
Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) (1599–1660) self-portrait in the painting, “'Las
Meninas'', 1656, in the Museo del Prado (Madrid) (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Las_Meninas),
published in the March 1898 issue of the art journal, “Gazette des Beaux-Arts”,
between pages 182 and 183.
Etching with pale plate tone printed
in a cool-black ink on laid paper and backed with a support sheet.
Size: (sheet) 25.5 x 18.4 cm; (plate) 22.7
x 17.1 cm; (image borderline) 21.3 x 15.8 cm.
Inscribed in plate: (upper left
corner) “VELAZQUEZ”; (lower left) “[artist monogram]/ =Janvrier 1898=/ Gazette
des Beaux-Arts”; (lower right corner) “Léon Bonnat sc.”
IFF 9 (“Inventaire du Fonds Français”,
Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Départment des Estampes).
Condition: a strong and well-printed impression
in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant
stains and laid upon a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi
paper providing wide margins.
I am selling this extraordinarily
beautiful etching capturing in a gauze of cross-hatched lines the slightly hazy
self-portrait by Velasquez—an effect of fuzziness resulting from the portrayed
distance that the painter had positioned himself from the viewer—for AU$244 in
total (currently US$159.92/EUR147.21/GBP124.19 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$244) as this is my currency.
If you are interested in purchasing
this marvellous translation of the colours and tones of Velasquez’s
self-portrait into a layering of line, please contact me
(oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make
the payment easy.
