Frédéric Laguillermie, “Le Lac de Némi”, 1873, after Camille Corot

Frédéric Laguillermie (aka Frédéric Auguste Laguillermie) (1841–1934)

“Le Lac de Némi” (Lake Nemi), 1873, etching, plate 136, after Camille Corot’s (aka Jean Baptiste Camille Corot) (1796–1875) painting, “Souvenir of the Environs of Lake Nemi”,1865, in the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago, printed in Paris by Alfred Salmon (fl.1863–1894) and published by the Durand-Ruel Gallery (see IFF 41).

Note that Eugène Louis Pirodon (1824–c.1908) executed a lithograph in the reverse direction to Corot’s painting; see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1889-0608-493.

The Art Institute of Chicago offers the following description of Corot’s painting, Souvenir of the Environs of Lake Nemi”,1865: “This scene is imbued with a sense of quiet and stillness, broken only by the lone female bather pulling herself out of the water by a branch. Although the setting is a real hillside lake he visited in northern Italy, Camille Corot painted the view from memory, having returned to Paris in 1843 from the last of three trips to the region. Thus, rather than presenting an accurate record of the location, the painting is a picturesque souvenir, with the topography transformed as much by the artist’s silvery-gray and deep-green palette as by his fond reminiscences” (https://www.artic.edu/artworks/59002/souvenir-of-the-environs-of-lake-nemi (inv. 1979.1280).

Etching on buff-coloured laid paper.

Size: (sheet) 19.8 x 29.4 cm; (plate [soft]) 12.8 x 16.3 cm; (image borderline) 10.1 x 13.8 cm.

Numbered in plate above the image borderline: (right) “136”.

Inscribed in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Corot pinx^t”; (right) “Laguillermie sculp^t”.

IFF 41 (Jacques Lethève & Françoise Gardey 1963, “Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800: KA–LAURENCE”, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes, vol. 12, p. 219, cat. no. 41 [plate 136]; see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5488490f/f242).

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

I am selling this small and very beautiful etching for the total cost of AU $247 (currently US $154.55/ EUR 148.01/ GBP 124.23 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 $247) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this finely executed translation of Corot’s painting into an intricate web of lines, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.