Jean Jacques de Boissieu (aka Jean
Jacques de Boissieux) (1736–1810)
“Small Grove with Hunter” (“Petit
Bosquet avec Chasseur” [Perez title]) (aka “Landscape with a man carrying a gun”
[Fitzwilliam title]), 1772. Regarding the date of this print, the Curator of
the British Museum offers the following insight:
“The date of the plate is based on a
letter by De Boissieu's brother; however Perez notes that it seems a little
late considering the awkwardness of the composition” (see BM no. 1853,0312.410)
Note: Perez, in his catalogue raisonné (p.130),
advises that this plate was inscribed directly from nature without preliminary
drawing and mentions a feature that I hadn’t noticed: a flowering thistle at
lower left.
Etching and drypoint on cream chine
collé, trimmed with narrow margins around the plate-mark and re-margined with a
support sheet
Size: (support sheet) 34.6 x 37.6 cm;
(sheet) 16.5 x 22 cm; (chine collé) 15.8 x 21.4 cm
Inscribed on plate with the artist’s
monogram of entwined letters: (upper left) “DB”.
State iv (of iv) with the rounded lower-right
corner.
Perez 55 IV (Perez, Marie-Félicie 1994,
“L'Oeuvre gravé de Jean-Jacques de Boissieu”, Geneva, pp. 130–31); IFF 55 (Inventaire
du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes, Paris,
1930).
See the description of this print at the
Fitzwilliam Museum:
Condition: rare richly inked and near
faultless impression of great delicacy trimmed near the plate mark and re-margined
upon a conservator’s support sheet.
I am selling this strong image of a grove
of trees with a chap seemingly hunting —dare I say aimlessly?—with very long
rifle for the total cost of AU$183 (currently US$131.22/EUR115.43/GBP101.93 at
the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in
the world.
If you are interested in purchasing this
graphically arresting print that one could argue links the vision of Ruisdael
with the artists of the Barbizon School, 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
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