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174716913Paris: chez Gersaint et chez Surugue 1747. Engraving printed on laid paper. Very good condition with the exception of some repair in the bottom right hand corner of sheet. Image size: 13 7/8 x 19 inches. A charming arabesque depicting a group of children playfully engaged in an argument from Moyreau's "Oeuvres Des Estampes Gravées d'après Les Tableaux & Desseins de feu Antoine Watteau."<br/> <br/>Born in Valenciennes in 1684 the versatile artist Jean-Antoine Watteau was primarily renowned for his fête galante paintings depicting aristocratic men and women amorously conversing in the outdoors. Following a brief apprenticeship to the local painter Jacques-Albert Gérin Watteau moved to Paris in 1702 where he later studied with Claude Gillot scene painter for the comédie italienne who introduced him to the commedia dell'arte which later became a recurrent theme in his work. In 1708 he began to work with the decorator Claude Audran under whose tutelage he produced several innovative ornamental decorations that were for porcelain furniture and textiles. Watteau was also a prolific draughtsman and his varied and substantial oeuvre includes military genre religious mythological and theatrical scenes as well as tapestry cartoons. After Watteau's death in 1721 his friend Jean de Jullienne commissioned a comprehensive body of engravings after the artist's drawings and paintings which further solidified his reputation as one of the most influential and prominent artists of the Rococo period.<br/> <br/>Cf. Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs vol 14 p. 473-6; cf. Dacier & Vuaflart Jean de Jullienne et Les Graveurs de Watteau au XVIIIeime Siècle 119. chez Gersaint et chez Surugue unknown books
174716913Paris: chez Gersaint et chez Surugue 1747. Engraving printed on laid paper. Very good condition with the exception of some repair in the bottom right hand corner of sheet. Image size: 13 7/8 x 19 inches. A charming arabesque depicting a group of children playfully engaged in an argument from Moyreau's "Oeuvres Des Estampes Gravées d'après Les Tableaux & Desseins de feu Antoine Watteau."<br/> <br/> Born in Valenciennes in 1684 the versatile artist Jean-Antoine Watteau was primarily renowned for his fête galante paintings depicting aristocratic men and women amorously conversing in the outdoors. Following a brief apprenticeship to the local painter Jacques-Albert Gérin Watteau moved to Paris in 1702 where he later studied with Claude Gillot scene painter for the comédie italienne who introduced him to the commedia dell'arte which later became a recurrent theme in his work. In 1708 he began to work with the decorator Claude Audran under whose tutelage he produced several innovative ornamental decorations that were for porcelain furniture and textiles. Watteau was also a prolific draughtsman and his varied and substantial oeuvre includes military genre religious mythological and theatrical scenes as well as tapestry cartoons. After Watteau's death in 1721 his friend Jean de Jullienne commissioned a comprehensive body of engravings after the artist's drawings and paintings which further solidified his reputation as one of the most influential and prominent artists of the Rococo period.<br/> <br/> Cf. Benezit Dictionnaire des Peintres Sculpteurs Dessinateurs et Graveurs vol 14 p. 473-6; cf. Dacier & Vuaflart Jean de Jullienne et Les Graveurs de Watteau au XVIIIeime Siècle 119. chez Gersaint et chez Surugue unknown
1780P3198Paris c.1780. some restoration otherwise good. Notes: Jean-Antoine Watteau French pronunciation: ʒan‿ɑ̃twan wato; October 10 1684 – July 18 1721 was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens. He revitalized the waning Baroque style and indeed moved it to the less severe more naturalistic less formally classical Rococo.<br>Watteau is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes: scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm suffused with an air of theatricality. Some of his best known subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet. Image Size : 422x538 mm 16.61x21.18 Inches Platemark Size : Paper Size : Coloring: Black & White Medium: Copper Engraving Categories: Performing Arts;Landscapes;Views Europe France Paris; unknown
1783P3317Paris. c. 1783. Very Good margins shaved closely. Notes: A depiction of General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm sustaining a fatal wound during the Battle of Quebec on September 13th 1759.<br><br>Louis Joseph Watteau 1731- 1798 was a French painter active in Lille. He played a decisive role in the foundation of what would become the musée lillois des Beaux-Arts opened in 1803 by producing the first ever inventory of paintings confiscated by the state during the French Revolution. Image Size : 213x298 mm 8.40x11.75 Inches Platemark Size : Paper Size : 274x311 mm 10.80x12.25 Inches Coloring: Black & White Medium: Copper Engraving Categories: Military Canadian unknown
1776P1553Paris 1776. Very Good. Margins shaved closely. Laid on acid free canvas for long term preservation. Image Size : 425x590 mm 16.75x23.25 Inches Platemark Size : Paper Size : 475x595 mm 18.75x23.375 Inches Coloring: Hand Colored Medium: Copper Engraving Categories: Military Canadian; unknown
17402420Augsburg: Johann Jacob Haid & son 1740. Six tall narrow folio-sized engravings with etching platemarks 400 x 207 mm. sheets 435 x 277 mm. deckle edges unsigned but by Jacop Wangner after Watteau numbered 1-6 in the plate at lower right imprint at lower right I. Haid et filius excudit A. V. Augustae Vindelicorum. Upper edges archivally tipped to mats. Fine.<br/> <br/> A perfectly preserved suite of six large rococo engravings reproducing Watteau's paintings for a folding screen intended to be cut out by ladies for use in furniture decoration. <br /> <br /> Watteau's influence on 18th-century decorative arts throughout Europe by way of the many engravings after his work published by Gersaint has long been recognized but the use of the engravings as actual sheets to be cut up and applied to household objects has garnered little attention until recently. The vogue for decoupage probably first appeared in the late seventeenth century and by the 1720s the hobby of cutting out colored prints for application to various household objects and pieces of furniture was all the rage in France Germany and beyond. The process which remained a favorite pastime throughout the eighteenth century was known as la découpure in French as Ausschneidekunst in German and as lacca contrafatta or lacca povera in Italian although "the latter term appears to be a true misnomer considering the amount of minute work involved" Kisluk-Grosheide p. 83. It consisted of neatly cutting out hand-colored engraved or woodcut motifs or figures applying them to a textile or sometimes cardboard ground and varnishing them. These creations were applied to furniture as well as to "screens folding screens wall hangings ceilings the tops of coaches and sedan chairs" loc. cit. affording a passable imitation of Asian lacquer. The craze which created a goldmine for certain print publishers reached the point that bibliophiles and collectors were warned to keep a vigilant eye on their most precious books prints and paintings lest eager young ladies attack them with scissors. <br /> <br /> In 1728 six engravings after Watteau's paintings for a folding screen were commissioned by the art collector Jean de Julienne as part of a vast program of reproductions of Watteau's painted oeuvre. They were engraved by Louis Crépy fils and published by the Paris marchand-mercier art dealer and print publisher Edmé-François Gersaint. An announcement of their upcoming publication in the November 1727 Mercure de France explicitly described them and two other Crépy-Watteau engravings as "marvelously appropriate for decoupages with which ladies these days make such pretty furniture" Crépy grave actuellement six morceaux en hauteur . d'après un Paravant peint par Watau dont les compositions sont très-galantes. De pareils sujets peints sur des fonds blancs conviennent à merveille aux découpures dont les Dames font aujourd'hui de si jolis meubles Mercure de France 1 Novembre 1727 p. 2492 digitized on Gallica. Indeed the publisher himself highlighted this usage in his own note in a later issue of the Mercure cited by Glorieux p. 212: pointing out that all of the decorative motifs in the Watteau engravings were "most useful for painters fan-makers sculptors goldsmiths tapestry-weavers embroiderers etc." he added that "all these ornaments can be perfectly used in decoupage" tous ces ornements réussissent parfaitement en découpure. <br /> <br /> These and other rococo engravings were quickly taken up by German publishers especially in Augsburg Metken p. 102. This paravent folding screen suite was one of the first of the Watteau engravings to be copied in Germany. The present very close reverse copies of Crépy's six plates appeared in Augsburg only a few months after their publication in June 1728 in Paris: engraved by Jacob Wangner or Wagner ca. 1703-1781 they were published by the heirs of Jeremias Wolff in 1729. This set is an otherwise unrecorded reissue of the Wangner copperplates. A lavishly decoupage-decorated secretary in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art includes cutouts that were almost certainly from these Augsburg plates as they are from "reverse copies of the prints by Crépy" Kisluk-Grosheide p. 88 noting other examples of Augsburg copies of Watteau prints used on the same secretary. Her assertion that "it has not been shown that these engravings were actually used for this purpose" p. 84 is only applicable to the French plates. Indeed other examples of lacca povera objects described in her article point to the German production of copies of French rococo prints as the main source for decoupage at this time on pieces produced throughout Europe including in Italy and in France itself. <br /> <br /> The general title appears at the foot of the first plate. Each engraving presents a central figure or scene set within a frame of delicate rococo arabesques and ornaments. Three show the Comédie italienne figures of Pierrot Harlequin and Colombine a woman playing the lute on a rug-bedecked stage a pair of allegorical figures flanking an awning above and at bottom the smiling visage of a Commedia dell'Arte character of the opposite sex. The remaining pastoral scenes of courtship or douceur de vie are set within naturalistic elements two with streams flowing over a dripping shell-shaped basin or ledge under which a ghostly face can be dimly discerned. Watteau's designs were based on earlier designs by Claude III Audran decorative painter for Louis XIV at Versailles and Fontainebleau to whom Watteau had apprenticed. "After joining forces with ornamentalist Claude III Audran about 1708 he Watteau began inserting figures in Comédie-Italienne costumes into Audran's trademark arabesques" Judy Sund "Watteau's Pierrots Why so Sad" The Art Bulletin vol. 98 no. 3 2016 p. 325 reproducing the Pierrot panel from the present series. <br /> <br /> OCLC locates a single copy of the Wolff issue at the Bibliothèque nationale de France reproduced in Gallica. In the present issue of which I locate no other copies the engraver's signatures were removed. <br /> <br /> On the Wolff issue cf. W. Augustyn "Augsburger Buchillustration im 18. Jahrhundert" in Augsburger Buchdruck und Verlagswesen von den Anfangen bis zur Gegegenwart 1997 p. 820 citing E. Isphording Gottfried Bernhard Göz 1708-1774 1997 pp. 35 ff.; Thieme Becker 35:150. On the Crépy engravings cf. Guilmard Maitres ornemanistes p.145; Dacier & Vauflart Jean de Julienne et les graveurs de Watteau au XVIII. siècle 159-163; E. de Goncourt Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre . d'Antoine Watteau 1875 p. 224 nos. 309-314; G. Glorieux À l'enseigne de Gersaint: Edme-François Gersaint marchand d'art sur le Pont Notre Dame Paris 2002 pp. 189-192; Mark Millard Collection: French Books no. 170.35 5 of the 6 plates. On the use of these engravings for decoupage see: D. O. Kisluk-Grosheide "'Cutting up Berchems Watteaus and Audrans': A Lacca Povera Secretary at The Metropolitan Museum of Art" Metropolitan Museum Journal 31 1996 pp. 81-97; and S. Metken Geschnittenes Papier Munich 1978 pp. 101-2 & 113. Johann Jacob Haid & son unknown
17502420Augsburg: Johann Jacob Haid & son 1750. Six tall narrow folio-sized engravings with etching platemarks 400 x 207 mm. sheets 435 x 277 mm. deckle edges numbered 1-6 in the plate at lower right imprint at lower right I. Haid et filius excudit A. V. Augustae Vindelicorum. Upper edges archivally tipped to mats. Fine. Rare suite of six rococo engravings reproducing Watteau's designs for a folding screen. This apparently unrecorded issue bearing the imprint of the Augsburg print-publisher Johan Jakob Haid and his son Johann Elias Haid is a re-issue of the plates which first appeared in 1729 with the signature of Jacob Wangner and the imprint of the heirs of Jeremias Wolff. OCLC locates a single copy of the Wolff issue at the Bibliothèque nationale de France photographs of the engravings are reproduced in the BnF online catalogue which misspells the artist's name as "Wagner". Wangner's engravings were based on the almost equally rare suite of six plates after Watteau commissioned by Jean Julienne and engraved by Crépy fils Louis Crépy in 1728. For the present issue the engraver's signatures barely visible in the BnF images were removed. The title appears at the foot of the first plate. Each engraving presents a central figure or scene set within a frame of delicate rococo allegorical and ornamental design. Three show the Comédie italienne figures of Pierrot/Gilles Harlequin and Columbina a woman playing the lute on a rug-bedecked stage a pair of allegorical figures flanking an awning above and at bottom the smiling visage of a Commedia dell'Arte character of the opposite sex. The remaining pastoral scenes of courtship or douceur de vie are set within naturalistic elements two with streams flowing over a dripping shell-shaped basin or ledge under which a ghostly face can be dimly discerned. Two painted screens based on these designs were sold at Sotheby's London on Feb. 12 2008 and again on 28 Oct. 2010 with the addition of a third painting from the series. I locate no other copies of the issue with the Haid imprint. On the Wolff issue cf. W. Augustyn "Augsburger Buchillustration im 18. Jahrhundert" in Augsburger Buchdruck und Verlagswesen 1997 p. 820 citing E. Isphording Gottfried Bernhard Göz 1708-1774 1997 pp. 35 ff. On the Crépy engravings cf. Guilmard Maitres ornemanistes p.145; Dacier & Vauflart 159-163; E. de Goncourt Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre . d'Antoine Watteau 1875 p. 224 nos. 309-314; G. Glorieux À l'enseigne de Gersaint: Edme-François Gersaint marchand d'art sur le Pont Notre Dame 1694-1750 2002 pp. 190 & 192; Mark Millard Collection: French Books no. 170.35 5 of the 6 plates. Johann Jacob Haid & son unknown books
173541749Paris: chez Audran 1735. Volume 1 of 2. Folio. 21x14 inches. Engraved title engraved portrait of Watteau by Boucher 8 pp. of engraved text and 132 numbered engravings on 101 plates. Bound in a spectacular 19th century binding by Leighton full morocco spine with elaborate gilt floral tooling in compartments borders with wide gilt fillets and gilt turn-ins<br/> <br/> Provenance: Bookplate of Alfred Charles Freiherr de Rothschild of Halton House Buckinghamshire<br/> <br/> The original edition of volume one of this beautiful collection of engravings published with the encouragement of Jean de Julienne the director of La Manufacture des Gobelins who was a collector and a friend of Watteau. The plates were engraved by the best engravers of the time Boucher Jean and Benoit Audran Cochin Desplaces and others. Antoine Watteau was the master of Rococo and Fetes Galantes styles of art and decoration. Many of the subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet.<br/> <br/> Cohen de Ricci 1063; Sander 2043. chez Audran unknown
173541751Paris: chez Gersaint and others 1735. Folio. 21 1/2 x 18 inches. Manuscript title 'Estampes d'apres Watteau.' 69 fine engravings on 63 sheets - 7 with two engravings to the page the rest single sheet plates with the double page plates counted as one plate. Included are 7 rococo images a set of the seasons a horizontal set and 5 double-page plates the bibliography calls for 7 and here we have four of the listed double page plates and one unlisted L'Accordee de Village. 35 of the plates have been trimmed to the margin but with their titles present and laid on sheets to fit the binding. 5 plates have an almost invisible fold. Bound in a spectacular 19th century binding by Leighton full morocco spine with elaborate gilt floral tooling in compartments borders with wide gilt fillets and gilt turn-ins.<br/> <br/> There is a very detailed description of this work the Schuhmann copy with 206 plates in Cohen de Ricci. It states that the vertical plates are in volume one and the horizontal plates are in volume two of 'Oeuvres'. Here we have 19 from volume one and 39 from volume two and 11 plates not listed in the bibliography. It further states that the Edmond de Rothschild incomplete collection contains the finest impressions. This collection contains the bookplate of Alfred Charles Freiherr de Rothschild of Halton House Bucks. The impressions of the engravings in this album is superb mostly in the rococo Fetes Galantes style for which Watteau is legendary. They were engraved by the finest engravers of the time- Huquier Liotard Audran Fessard etc. Antoine Watteau was the master of Rococo and Fetes Galantes. Many of the subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet.<br/> <br/> Cohen de Ricci 1059. chez Gersaint and others unknown
173541750Paris: chez Gersaint 1735. Folio. 25 x 19 inches. Fine engraved title within an elaborate rococo design by Watteau engraved by Moyreau - 60 engravings on 58 plates 2 with two engravings per plate. Bound in a spectacular 19th century binding by Leighton full morocco spine with elaborate gilt floral tooling in compartments borders with wide gilt fillets and gilt turn-ins<br/> <br/> A collection of plates from the first and the fourth volume only two volumes were published.<br/> <br/> There is a very detailed description of this work the Schuhmann copy with 206 plates in Cohen de Ricci. It states that the vertical plates are in volume one and the horizontal plates are in volume two. Here we have 20 from volume one and 35 from volume two and 3 plates not listed in the bibliography. It further states that the Edmond de Rothschild incomplete collection contains the finest impressions.This collection contains the bookplate of Alfred Charles Freiherr de Rothschild of Halton House Bucks. The impressions of the engravings in this album are superb. Among the plates are two sets of the seasons- Spring Summer Autumn Winter- one horizontal and one vertical within oval cartouches plus La Musette L'ille Enchante Les Agreements de l'Ete- in fact they are all wonderful images mostly in the rococo Fetes Galantes style for which Watteau is legendary. They were engraved by the finest engravers of the time- Huquier Liotard Audran Fessard etc. Antoine Watteau 1684-1721- the master of Rococo and Fetes Galantes. Many of the subjects were drawn from the world of Italian comedy and ballet.<br/> <br/> Cohen de Ricci 1059. chez Gersaint unknown
