ENGRAVINGS & PRINTS
Wednesday 5 May 2021 at 14:00
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330 lots
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199 - PILLEMENT Jean (after) (Lyon 1728 1808) - Plate from "Nouvelle suite de cahiers de fleurs idéales à l'usage des dessinateurs et des peintres, inventés et dessinés par Jean Pillement, gravés par Anne Allen". Engraved with etching by Anne ALLEN (a specialist of ornamental engraving, probably of British origin, she worked in Paris around 1760 and engraved, after Pillement, several suites of charming motifs printed in colours). Printed in colours on the mark. Ref: I.F.F XVIIIth, n°2. Margins.
Estimate €400 - €500 -
200 - PIRANESI Giovanni Battista (Mogliano Veneto 1720 1778 Venice) - "Ruine di Sepolcro antico posto dinanzi ad altre ruine d'un Acquedetto pure antico []" (Ruins of an ancient tomb in front of the ruins of an ancient aqueduct). c.1760-1770. Etching. Proof on watermarked laid paper (Letters). Reference: Hind & Focillon, n°6. Plate 6 of the series "Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive". Margins. 55 x 39 cm. Condition A (Some marginal foxing).
Estimate €400 - €500 -
201 - PIRANESI Giovanni Battista (Mogliano Veneto 1720 1778 Venice) - "Veduta del Romano Campigoglio con Scalinata che va alla Chiesa d'Araceli". 1757. Plate from the series "Vedute di Roma (Picturesque views of Rome)". Original etching. Reference: Hind, n°38. Focillon, n°807. Proof on laid paper, with the address "Pressso l'autore a Strada Felice nel Palazoo Tomati vicino alla Trinita de Monti" and without the number. Beautifully printed. Beautiful and famous engraving representing the Capitoline H
Estimate €400 - €500 -
202 - REYNOLDS Sir Joshua (After) (Plympton 1723 London 1792) - "Lady Catherine Pelham Clinton". Black Manner engraved by John Raphael Smith (Derby 1752 Worcester 1812). Proof with the letter, on wove paper. Ref: Hamilton 1884 / A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (p.91). Published in London by J.R. Smith, No. 83 opposite the Pantheon, Oxford Street. Margins. Lady Catherine Pelham-Clinton (1776-1804) was the daughter of Henry Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, Earl of Lincoln and L
Estimate €200 - €300 -
203 - SURUGUE Pierre-Louis, Father (Paris 1686 1762) - "Protection granted to the Fine Arts, 1663". 1752. Etching and burin after the painting by Charles LE BRUN (Paris 1619 1690) and the drawing by J.B Massé. Ref: Portalis & Béraldi, n°14. Proof of the 2nd state of 2, with the letter, on watermarked laid paper (Letters). Margins. 62 x 43,8 cm. Condition B/C (Slightly dusted and foxed mainly in the margins and on the reverse, a short tear in the right margin).
Estimate €200 - €300 -
204 - VERNET Joseph (Avignon 1714 - 1789) - "The beach with the big tower". Original etching. Ref: P. de Baudicour, n°1. Signed in point "Joseph Vernet fecit" under the square line on the right. Proof of a late edition on wove paper. Margins. 22.5 x 30.5 [26.5 x 35.3] cm. Condition A (weakened plate cut, small traces of old mounting on the reverse).
Estimate €300 - €400 -
205 - SAINT NICOLAS' DAY - 25 DRAWINGS from the 19th century - "Essay of illustration on the Legend of Saint Nicolas". Set of 25 drawings in black ink mounted on sheet and gathered in an album. Each drawing captioned in brown ink forming a story ("There were three children / Who were going to glean in the fields", "Enter, little children, There is certainly room", "Saint Nicolas, after seven years, came to pass in this field" ...). Good condition. 19 x 15 cm approximately each drawing (23,5 x 46 cm fo
Estimate €250 - €300 -
206 - LANDSCAPE, Village by the river]. 19th century. Engraving, collage and watercolor on paper. Handwritten annotations on the reverse: "N°13 Junio. 26 le 1876, Angel Rodriguez de Lavandera". 32,3 x48 cm. Condition B (Small accidents on the edges, a tear at the foot reaching only the edge).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
207 - ABEL PANN (1883 1963) - [Flight of Civilians on a Bridge in the Midst of the Fighting, 1914-1918 War]. Lithograph. Nice proof on wove paper. Good margins. 50 x 67 cm. Condition A (Rare short marginal tears).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
208 - ACHENER Maurice (Mulhouse 1881 Paris 1963) - "The Scaligieri Ramparts in Verona". 1911. Original etching. Signed and dated in the plate in the lower right corner. Proof on China paper, countersigned in grey pencil by the artist and stamped with the Cercle de la Librairie (Lugt 438). Published by the Société des Amis de l'Eau-forte. Margins. 27,5 x 36 cm. Condition A/B (Some marginal foxing slightly reaching the sky).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
209 - ACHENER Maurice (Mulhouse 1881 Paris 1963) - "Verona, Palazzo Dalisca". Original etching. Signed with the artist's monogram lower right in the composition. Ref: I.F.F After 1800, not described. Nice proof with margins, numbered 52 from an edition at 65 copies and countersigned in grey pencil by the artist. Good condition. 24,2 x 18,5 cm. Condition A.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
210 - ADAN Louis Dit Emile, (Paris 1839 1937) - [The ferryman's daughter]. Ink drawing on bristol paper. Signed lower left in the composition. Titled under the subject on the left. Pupil of Picot and Cabanel at the school of fine arts in Paris, Emile Adan obtained the Bonnat prize in 1931. He was a faithful exhibitor of the French watercolorists society, he participated in all the salons from 1863 to 1937. 30 x 46,7 cm. Condition C (A tear reaching a little the subject in the upper left, stains in the
Estimate €100 - €150 -
211 - ALENZA Leonardo (Madrid 1807 1845) - "Caprichos de Alenza". Suite (incomplete) of 10 etched plates. Proofs on laid paper. All with good margins. Some plates of this suite have common points with those of the "Caprichos" by Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). 34,5 x 24,5 cm approximately each plate. Condition A (Occasional scattered foxing in the good margins, otherwise good condition). Set of 10 plates.
Estimate €400 - €500 -
212 - BALESTRIERI Lionel (After) (Cetona (Italy, near Siena) 1872 1958) - "Beethoven". c.1900. Etching engraved by W. Leo Arndt (1857-1945). Proof on China paper, published by Richard Bong, in Berlin. Margins. 33,5 x 56,3 cm. Condition B (Some marginal foxing and on the reverse, a trace of wetness reaching the edge of the subject, hardly visible on the right).
Estimate €300 - €400 -
213 - BELLANGE Hippolyte (Paris 1800 1866) - "Winter sleigh". Original lithograph. Proof on wove paper. Signed with the artist's initials in the plate. Printed by C. de Lasteyrie. Good margins. 30 x 45,3 cm. Condition A (Rare stains in the margins).
Estimate €150 - €200 -
214 - BOILLY Julien Léopold (Paris 1796 1874) - "The Fine Arts". Beautiful etching engraved after the painting by François Boucher (Paris 1703 1770) kept in the Museum of Angers. Proof with the letter, printed in red chalk on wove paper by Delâtre in Paris. Published by "L'Artiste". Margins. 35,8 x 27,3 cm. Condition A (Good condition).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
215 - BOILLY Julien Léopold (Paris 1796 1874) - "Venus and Adonis". Lithograph after Pierre Paul PRUD'HON (Cluny 1758 Paris 1823). Ref: I.F.F After 1800, n°30. Nice proof on China paper, printed by Bertauts, in Paris. Published by Marchant, Edt. Alliance des Arts, rue Rivoli, 140, in Paris. Margins. 45 x 31,5 cm. Condition (Good condition).
Estimate €150 - €200 -
216 - BORTNYCK Sándor (Marosvásárhely, Romania 1893-1976 Budapest, Hungary). Geometric Composition]. 1921. Original collage on paper. Signed lower left, dated and located lower right "Wien [Vienna] 1921" in pen. 24.5 x 20 cm. Condition B (a short tear in the lower left corner).
Estimate €600 - €700 -
217 - BOULANGER Louis (Verceil (Piemonte) 1806 Dijon 1867) - "Les Orientales (Sara la baigneuse, Victor Hugo)". 1830. Original lithograph. Proof on wove paper, with the dry stamp of the printer & publisher C. Motte (Lugt 1828b). Ref: Béraldi, n°4. I.F.F. After 1800, n°12. Margins. 42,5 x 30 cm. Condition B/C (Three short tears in the margins and foxing).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
218 - BOUTET DE MONVEL Bernard (Paris 1884 Les Açores 1949) - "The first suspicions". Stencil. Signed with the artist's monogram in the lower right corner of the plate. Nice proof on laid paper, for the "Gazette du Bon Ton". Margins. Good condition. 24,5 x 18,5 cm. Condition A.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
219 - BREVIERE Louis-Henri (Forges-les-Eaux 1797 Hyères 1869) - [Printer's mark F. Baudry, Arms of Rouen (76)]. One of the first woodcuts executed in France by Breviere after E. Langlois, in Rouen around 1815, depicting the arms of Rouen modified after the Hundred Days (the fleurs de lys replacing the bees). Wove paper ancinennement pasted in full on strong paper. L.H. Brevière, draughtsman and engraver, is known to have re-established in France the art of woodcutting. 8 x 11 cm (18,5 x 28 cm). Con
Estimate €300 - €400 -
220 - CHEFFER Henry (Paris 1880 1957) - "The Breton Calvary". 1934. Original etching. Ref: I..F.F Après 180, n°38. Proof on wove paper, numbered 92/154, signed in pencil by the artist. Published by the Société de la Gravure Originale en noir. Good margins. 41,5 x 33 cm. Condition A (Minor foxing on the margins and verso).
Estimate €200 - €300 -
221 - CHIEZE Jean (Valence 1898 Guilherand-Granges 1975) - "Souvenir". Engraved wood. Proof on Japon vergé, titled, numbered 3 from an edition at 50 copies and signed in pencil by the artist. Good margins. 43 x 47 cm. Condition A (Small folds marked in the margins).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
222 - CORABOEUF Jean (Pouillé-les-Coteaux 1870 Paris 1947) - "Madame Destouches". c.1910. Etching after a drawing by Jean Auguste Dominique INGRES (Montauban 1780 Paris 1867). Ref: I.F.F After 1800, p.165. Proof on China paper, signed in grey pencil by the artist. Margins. 52,5 x 35,5 cm. Condition A (Minor foxing in the margins and slight traces of handling).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
223 - COTTET Charles (Puy 1863 1924) - "Old woman of Ouessant." c.1910. Original etching. Ref : I.F.F After 1800, n°2. Printed by A.Vernant and E. Dollé. Nice proof, with good margins, on cream laid paper, published by the Revue de l'Art ancien et moderne. All margins untrimmed. 30,5 x 22,2 cm. Condition A (Good condition, one vertical fold in the left margin, the lower right corner is unstained).
Estimate €150 - €200 -
224 - COURBET Gustave (After) (Ornans 1819 La Tour-de-Peilz (Switzerland) 1877) - "Self-portrait with a pipe, by Gustave Courbet". Etching and aquatint. Proof on Japon fort, with remark (A man and his dog) engraved in the tablet, numbered 20 from an edition of 150 and signed in pencil by the engraver (not identified). Good margins. 51 x 44.3 cm. Condition A (Very slight handling creases in the good margins).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
225 - DAUCHEZ André (Paris 1870 1943) - [Stranded boats]. Original etching. Signed in point at the bottom of the plate. Proof on Arches wove paper, with engraved remark (anchor), numbered 58 and countersigned in pencil by the artist. Good margins. 38 x 56,5 cm. Condition A/B (light stain slightly reaching the subject at the foot and on the left).
Estimate €200 - €300 -
226 - DAUMIER Honoré (Marseille 1808 1879 Valmondois), ROPS Félicien (Namur 1833 Essonnes 1898), TAIEE Alfred (Paris 1820 1880), HARPIGNIES Henri (Valenciennes 1819 Saint-Privé 1916) - "Planche des quatre peintres ou chez Bériot". 1872. Original etching. Ref : Delteil (Daumier), n°3955. Exsteens n°671, Mascha n°516. Nice proof on wove paper, engraved at Ch. de Bériot on May 29, 1872. By Daumier, the head of a man in profile on the right; by Harpignies, the landscape; by A. Taiée, a gentleman
Estimate €100 - €150 -
227 - DECARIS Albert (Sotteville-les-Rouen 1901 1988) - "The four animals". Original burin. Proof on wove paper, numbered 6 from an edition at 100 copies and signed in pencil by the artist. Reference: Boussard, p.64 (op.12). Plate I of the suite "L'Apocalypse". "A procession advances with the four animals symbolizing the evangelists: an eagle, a taureua, a lio and a man" (Boussard). Margins. 65 x 50 cm. Condition A (Some foxing and traces of wetness in the margins and verso).
Estimate €300 - €400 -
228 - DELION (XIXth) - [Woman of cabaret]. Beautiful lithograph printed in colors. Glazed vellum paper. Signed lower right in the plate. Margins. 49 x 30,8 cm. Condition B (Rare short tears in the margins and slight traces of handling).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
229 - DORÉ Gustave (Strasbourg 1832 Paris 1883) - "Bluebeard puts his wife on guard". c.1862. Engraved wood. Signed lower right in the plate. Proof on strong wove paper. Plate for "Les Contes de Perrault" published by Pierre-Jules Hetzel in 1862. Margins. 36 x 26,3 cm. Condition B (Dusty margins and verso).
Estimate €80 - €100 -
230 - DORÉ Gustave (Strasbourg 1832 Paris 1883) - "The Bear Hunt". 1856. Lithograph. Signed lower left in the plate. Proof with the letter, on wove paper. Reference: Béraldi, n°73. I.F.F After 1800, n°206 (7). Printed by Vayron, in Paris. Published at the Office of the Journal Anglais Français, rue Bergère, 20, Paris. Margins. 41 x 31 cm. Condition A (Some light foxing on the margins and verso).
Estimate €150 - €200 -
231 - DORÉ Gustave (Strasbourg 1832 Paris 1883) - "The Slide". 1856. Lithograph. Signed lower right in the plate. Proof with the letter, on wove paper. Reference: Béraldi, n°73. I.F.F After 1800, n°206 (13). Printed by Vayron, in Paris. Published at the Office of the French English Museum, rue Bergère, 20, Paris. Margins. 31 x 41 cm. Condition A (Light foxing on the margins and verso).
Estimate €150 - €200 -
232 - DUPRE Julien (Paris 1851 1910) - "Dans le clos". Engraved with etching by Gaston Louis S. Rodriguez (Engraver and painter, pupil of Courtry). Nice proof before letter on parchment, with remark (a painting palette) engraved in the tablet and countersigned in black pencil by the artist. Margins. 28,2 x 38,3 cm. Condition A (Good condition).
Estimate €150 - €200 -
233 - ENSOR James Sydney Edouard (Ostend 1860 1949) - "The capital sins dominated by Death". 1904. Original etching. Ref : Taevernier n°126. Signed in the plate. Nice proof on Arches cream laid paper. This plate is the frontispiece of the series "Les péchés capitaux" created by Ensor from 1888 to 1904. James Ensor was a painter par excellence of the light of the North Sea on whose shores he grew up and was strongly marked by the death of his father and grandmother in 1887. This key date marked a tu
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000 -
234 - FAURE DUJARRIC Louis-Lucien (1872-1943) - "The curious cow". 1903. Lithograph in colors. Signed lower left in the plate. Margins. H55,9 x W75,4 cm. Condition A (oxidized paper)
Estimate €100 - €150 -
235 - FOUJITA Léonard Tsugharu (After) (Edogawa (Tokyo) 1886 1968) - [Portrait of Marie-Berthe Aurenche]. c.1928. Photomechanical process. Printed on thin laid paper and mounted in mitre. Reprint of an original drawing by Foujita published in Paul Morand's booklet, Foujita, ed. des Chroniques du jour, 1928. 26 x 18,5 cm. Condition A (Minor light foxing on the edges).
Estimate €200 - €300 -
236 - GOYA Y LUCIENTES Francisco José (Fuente de Todos (Aragon) 1746 Bordeaux 1828) - "Modo con que los antiguos Espanoles cazaban los toros a caballo en el campo" (The way the Ancient Spaniards used to chase the bulls...) 1816. Original etching, aquatint and drypoint, printed in brown. Ref: Harris, n°204. First plate of the series "La Tauromachie". Proof probably from the 6th edition (1928) on laid paper, with a dry stamp in the lower right margin showing the Portrait of Goya & the inscription "Tau
Estimate €600 - €800 -
237 - GRANDVILLE Jean-Jacques (Nancy 1803 1847 Vanves) - "The hunt for freedom". 1832. Lithograph in collaboration with Eugène Forest (Strasbourg 1808 Grenoble 1891). Signed with the artists' initials in the lower left corner of the plate. Reference : I.F.F. n°43, plate 214. Proof printed on wove paper (two plates joined together), heightened with red watercolour. Published by Aubert and printed by Becquet (Rue Childebert, Paris). Published in "La Caricature politique, morale, littéraire et scéniq
Estimate €200 - €300 -
238 - GRANDVILLE Jean-Jacques (Nancy 1803 Vanves 1847) - "The Poster (in the background, the Gazette and the Constitutional)". 1833. Lithograph in collaboration with Eugène Forest, heightened with blue watercolor. Signed with the artists' initials in the lower right corner of the plate. Proof with the letter, on white vellum. Reference: I.F.F After 1800, n°55. Plate 256 from "La Caricature". Printed by de Becquet, rue Childebert, n°9 and published by Aubert. Margins. Caricature of Louis-Philippe, r
Estimate €100 - €150 -
239 - GRANDVILLE Jean-Jacques (after) (Nancy 1803 Vanves 1847) - "This good king was sitting on a stone which served as his throne, and surrounded by his subjects, who all seemed to be at their best with him". c.1842. Colour plate from the book "Scènes de la vie privée et publique des animaux" by P.-J. Stahl, illustrated by Grandville. 26 x 17,5 cm. Condition A (some light foxing on the margins).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
240 - GRASSET Eugène (After) (Lausanne 1845 Sceaux 1917) - "Winter, decorative panel by Eugène Grasset". c.1900. Chromotypography. Monogram of the artist in the composition. Printed by Draeger. Plate 5 of the "Album de la décoration", published by A. Calavas, in Paris. Margins. Good condition. 36 x 26 cm. Condition A.
Estimate €100 - €150 -
241 - GROUX Henry de (Bruxelles 1867 Marseille 1930) - "Les massacres". Original lithograph. Proof on Japon fort, with remark (Head of a man) lithographed in the right margin, titled, numbered 12/20 in grey pencil and signed in red pencil by the artist. Good margins. 56 x 76 cm. Condition B (Trace of old vertical median fold, marked creases in upper margin).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
242 - HABERT-DYS Jules Auguste (after) (Born in 1850) - [Two storks]. c.1887. Engraved and printed in colours by Gillot. Signed with the initials "H.D" below the composition. Nice proof on Chine applied on strong vellum. Plate 40 of the series "Fantaisies décoratives", published by J. Rouam, in Paris. Good margins. 45 x 30,5 cm. Condition A (Good general condition).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
243 - HABERT-DYS Jules Auguste (after) (Born in 1850) - [The beetles]. c.1887. Engraved and printed in colours by Gillot. Signed "Habert-Dys" in the lower right corner of the plate. Nice proof on Chine applied on strong vellum. Plate 38 of the series "Fantaisies décoratives", published by J. Rouam, in Paris. Good margins. 45 x 31 cm. Condition A (Good general condition).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
244 - HABERT-DYS Jules Auguste (after) (Born in 1850) - [The rooster]. c.1887. Engraved and printed in colours by Gillot. Signed "Habert-Dys" in the lower right corner of the plate. Nice proof on Chine applied on strong vellum. Plate 37 of the series "Fantaisies décoratives", published by J. Rouam, in Paris. Good margins. 31 x 45 cm. Condition A (tiny lack at the lower left corner in the margin otherwise good condition).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
245 - ICART Louis (Toulouse 1888 Paris 1951) - "Faust". 1928. Original etching and aquatint, in colours, on wove paper. Nice proof, with good margins, signed in grey pencil by the artist. Published by les Graveurs modernes. Nice condition. 62 x 44 cm - Condition A.
Estimate €200 - €300 -
246 - JACQUE Frédéric (Born in Paris in 1859) - "Millet in his studio". 1881. Original etching. Proof on cream laid paper (Watermark: fragment of a crowned shield). Ref. I.F.F After 1800, not described. Printed by G. Malthe. Small margins. 19,2 x 24,5 cm. Condition A (Good condition).
Estimate €200 - €300 -
247 - JACQUIER Marcel (1877 - 1957). Somewhere in France. Ten colour drawings by Marcel Jacquier. Paris, Edmond Sagot publisher, 1918. Large folio album in paperback [43,5 x 32,5 cm], in illustrated soft cover, complete with its 10 plates. Very nice color proofs on vellum, monogrammed in the subjects. Printed in Paris, by Frazier-Soye. Copy number 369 (from an edition of 500). Colophon with the artist's signature. Condition A. (Some interior foxing, cover very slightly oxidized).
Estimate €100 - €150 -
248 - JAZET Jean-Pierre Marie (Paris 1788 1871) - "The Four Seasons, The life of a Gentleman in all seasons". c.1846. Complete suite of 4 plates engraved with aquatint after Henri Auguste d'Ainecy MONTPEZAT (1817 - 1859 ), printed in colours and enhanced. Printed and published by Goupil & Vibert. All with margins. Framed pieces. 67 x 89 cm approximately each with the frame. Condition B/C (Some foxing, a few tears formerly restored, partially sunned proofs, not examined outside their frames).
Estimate €1,500 - €2,000
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