Charles Émile Jacque’s etching, “River landscape with a bridge and trees, in the background a mill”, 1846

Charles Émile Jacque (aka Charles Jacque) (1813–1894)

“River landscape with a bridge and trees, in the background a mill” (Rijksmuseum title) (Guiffrey [1866] titles this etching, “Paysage” [Landscape], in his catalogue raisonné), 1846, after a painting by Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) (as inscribed on plate).

Etching with drypoint and roulette on chine collé on wove paper, trimmed with small margins and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 23.2 x 25.7 cm; (plate) 17.3 x 22.4 cm; (image borderline) 12.3 x 18.8 cm.

Inscribed on plate below the image borderline: (centre) “gravé à l'eau-forte d'ap. le tableau  original de Rembrandt”; (right) “1846 – Ch. Jacque.”

State ii (of ii/iii) Note that the British Museum has two impressions of this print which are both described as “after state II”. I assume that this description of the state is because the text line referencing Rembrandt’s painting has been burnished/partly erased on the BM’s copies.

IFF after 1800 507 (Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes, Paris, dl. 11, p. 126, cat.nr. 507); Guiffrey 1866 76 (J-J Guiffrey 1866, “L'Oeuvre de Charles Jacque: catalogue de ses eaux-fortes et pointes seches”, Paris, p. 58, cat.nr. 76).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print:

“Landscape with river in the foreground, a bridge on the far right, clump of trees on the left, and in the distance, bathed in light, a tower, a village and a windmill.”

(https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3500987&partId=1&searchText=Jacque+rembrandt&page=1)

See also the Rijksmuseum’s description:

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.128591

Condition: richly inked and superbly printed early impression with trimmed small margins laid onto a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper. There is a closed tear at lower left corner of the margin; otherwise the sheet is in an excellent condition (i.e. there are no holes, creases, abrasions, stains or signs of foxing).

I am selling this darkly glowing etching executed by one of the leading luminaries of the Barbizon School capturing the dramatic magic of Rembrandt’s use of chiaroscuro lighting in “thick … and yet transparent” shadows—as Guiffrey [1866] points out in his insightful description of this print—for AU$188 (currently US$134.39/EUR118.28/GBP104.47 at the time of posting this print) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world (but not, of course, any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries).

If you are interested in purchasing very poetic and very beautiful etching, 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