Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin, “The Death of St. Jerome”, 1764

Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin (aka Etienne Poussin; Étienne de La Vallée Poussin; Delavallée-Poussin) (1733–1793 [MET]; 1735–1802 [BM])—related on his mother's side to the family of the great painter Nicolas Poussin (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Étienne_de_La_Vallée_Poussin and https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG34996)

“The Death of St. Jerome” (aka “Hermit and Angel in a Landscape”), 1764. Note that Étienne de Lavallée-Poussin also executed a related etching, “Death of St Mary Magdalene” (aka “Death of the Magdalen”; ”Female Saint in a Landscape”), c.1764 (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1917-1208-1645 [BM inv.no. 1917,1208.1645]; https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/385460).

Etching on heavy buff-coloured laid paper, trimmed with a narrow margin around the platemark.

Size: (sheet) 14.2 x 10.1cm; (plate) 13.8 x 9.6cm.

Inscribed in plate: (at right on rock) “Dela[v?]. Poussin inv. et Sc./ Rom[ae?] 1764”.

IFF 2 (Yves Sjöberg 1974, “Inventaire du Fonds Français, Graveurs du XVIIIe Siècle: LAURENT-LE GRAND”, vol. 13, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes, p. 67, cat. no. 2-3 [see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3413934n/f77.item.r=Inventaire%20du%20fonds%20fran%C3%A7ais,%20graveurs%20du%20XVIIIe%20si%C3%A8cle]).

The Harvard Museum of Art offers a description of this print: https://hvrd.art/o/173958.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression (near faultless), trimmed with a narrow margin in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions or significant stains.

I am selling this small jewel of an etching for AU $344 in total (currently US $220.75/ EUR 210.02/ GBP 172.90 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 $344) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in acquiring this very beautiful and (for me) poignantly sad etching—note how the artist has stretched the angel into a long sweeping movement on arriving at what is possibly the dying saint’s last breath as he clutches a crucifix inside a cave with vines draped like bunting above him—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

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