Eugène Bléry's etching, “Le ruisseau au petit chêne”, 1849

Eugène Bléry (aka Alexandre Stanislas Eugène Bléry) (1805–1887)

“Le ruisseau au petit chêne” (The small oak stream) (aka “Le petit ruisseau” [The Little Brook]), 1849, plate 8 from the series eight landscape views, “8 Eaux-Fortes Gravées sur Nature” (see the folio and images of all the prints in the series at the National Gallery of Art, Washington: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.79530.html).

Etching on light grey chine collé (China paper) on heavy wove paper backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 19.4 x 15.1 cm; (chine colllé) 15 x 11 cm; (plate) 14.8 x 10.8 cm.

Inscribed on plate on upper edge: (right of centre) “EBléry. / 1849”; (right) “8”.

State ii (of ii).

Beraldi 1885-92 75 (Henri Beraldi 1885, “Les Graveurs du dix-neuvième siècle”, 12 vols plus supplement, Paris); IFF 94 (Département des Estampes 1930, “Inventaire du Fonds, Français: graveurs du XVIIe siècle”, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale).

The British Museum offers the following description of this print:

“Landscape with in the centre foreground a stream; a forest in the background; rocks in the right foreground; finished state with letters.”

(https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3288003&partId=1&searchText=blery&page=1)

Condition: Richly inked and well-printed impression laid upon a support sheet of fine archival/millennium quality washi paper. The sheet is in excellent condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, foxing or significant signs of use).

I am selling this small remarkably beautiful etching—one of Bléry's finest (to my eyes)—that is the final plate in his landscape series of views around Dampierre (France), for AU$278 in total (currently US$195.24/EUR171.63/GBP153.73 at the time of posting this listing) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world.

If you are interested in purchasing this glowing vision of a steam in a dense forest, 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