Auguste Alexandre Baudran, “La Ronde”, 1864, after Domenico Campagnola

Auguste Alexandre Baudran (1823–1907)

“La Ronde”, 1864, a facsimile engraving employing a photomechanical process—possibly more advanced than the Heliogravure (photogravure) process that Baudran had inscribed on some of his earlier photomechanical prints (e.g., “Marie Ann Charlotte Corday de Armans” [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1898-0527-276]), but before Baudran’s “Colour Projection Method” that he developed/invented in 1891 (see Bernard E Jones [ed.] 1911, “Cassell’s Cylopædia of Photography, London, Cassell & Company, Ltd., p. 57 [https://ia804708.us.archive.org/5/items/cu31924030707867/cu31924030707867.pdf]), printed in three colours by Alfred Salmon (fl.1863–1894) after Domenico Campagnola’s (1500–1564) brown ink drawing (with chalk), “Twelve Dancing Putti” (see https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/4270/manifest.json), 1517, published in Paris in the art periodical, “La Gazette des Beaux-Arts”, 1^st July, 1864, p. 158 (see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k203081b/f488.double).

Photomechanical facsimile engraving printed in three colours (warm ochre, sanguine and burnt umber) on heavy wove paper with wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 18.4 x 25 cm; (plate) 14 x 18.9 cm; (image borderline) 9.6 x 12.4 cm.

Inscribed in plate within the image borderline: (lower centre) “Dominicvs/ Cāpaqnola/ ^.1517^.”.

Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “D. CAMPAGNOLA SC^T./ Gazette des Beaux-Arts”; (centre) “LA RONDE”; (right) FAC-SIMILE DE M. BAUDRAN/ Imp. A. Salmon à Paris”.

Alfred Morrison & M Holloway 1868, “The collection of engravings, formed between the years 1860–68”, London, [privately printed] Holloway and Son, p. 30 (https://archive.org/details/collectionofengr00morr/page/30/mode/2up).

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression in near pristine condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains or signs of handling.

I am selling this extraordinarily beautiful three-colour facsimile (photomechanical) hand-printed engraving published in 1864—for AU$198 in total (currently US$135.22/EUR121.11/GBP101.54 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$198) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this jewel of an engraving exemplifying the advances made by Domenico Campagnola in creating a note looseness and life to the stippled engraving technique developed by his former teacher, Giulio Campagnola (1482–1515), 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