Maxime Lalanne, “Weymouth Bay”, 1873, after Constable

Maxime Lalanne (aka François Antoine Maxime Lalanne) (1827–1886)

“Weymouth Bay” (aka “Baie de Weymouth”; “Plage de Weymouth”), 1873, after John Constable’s (1776–1837) painting in the Musee du Louvre, Paris (see https://digital.nga.gov.au/archive/exhibition/constable/detail.cfm%3Firn=145199&bioartistirn=18283&mystartrow=25&realstartrow=25&mnuid=2.html). Lalanne’s etching was exhibited in the Salon of 1874 (no. 3489) and published in London by Seeley & Co., and edited by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834–1894) as an insert between pages 160 and 161 to the article, “Examples of Modern Etching” in the art periodical “The Portfolio”, 1873, vol. 4.

Interestingly, there seems to be a controversy about the title of the Louvre’s painting that this etching translates into line, nevertheless the Louvre’s painting seems clearly to be the one that Hamerton (1873) describes on page 161, as “Osmington Shore, near Weymouth”.

Note that Lalanne made another etching of Constable’s painting (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1905-1021-15) but the present etching is the one published in “The Portfolio” in 1873.

Etching on laid paper, trimmed with a narrow margin around the image borderline and backed with a support sheet providing wide margins.

Size: (sheet) 12.9 x 17.5cm; (image borderline) 12.7 x 17.4cm.

Inscribed in plate: (lower right corner) “Lalanne sc./ d'ap Constable”.

State iv (of iv) as published in “The Portfolio” (1873).

Villet 95 (Jeffrey M. Villet 2010, “The Complete Prints of Maxime Lalanne”, Washington, D.C., art@mone fine prints, n. p., cat. no. 95 IV).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print: “View of Weymouth Bay, Dorset, beneath a stormy sky, with at centre towards foreground two figures at edge of water towards foreground; after Constable (Reynolds 19.9)” (https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1878-0511-90).

Condition: a richly inked and well-printed (near faultless) impression trimmed close to the image borderline and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing wide margins. Note that there are a few minor marks on the washi paper support.

I am selling this marvellous etching featuring light piercing through in an otherwise solid blanket of storm clouds passing over Weymouth Bay on the south coast of England, in Dorset, for AU $192 in total (currently US $118.99/ EUR 115.60/ GBP 96.80 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 $192) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this very beautiful and romantically dramatic etching, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.