Alfred
Alexandre Delauney
(1830–1895)
“The
Water Mill” (Le Moulin a Eau), 1883 (as dated on plate), after Meindert Hobbema’s (1638–1709) painting (1692)
in the collection of the Louvre Museum (MI 270; see https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meindert_Hobbema_004.jpg),
pencil signed proof impression
Etching
on heavy buff-coloured wove paper trimmed along or within the platemark, pencil
signed, and backed with a support sheet.
Size:
(sheet trimmed slightly unevenly) 59 x 34.4 cm; (image borderline) 47.3 x 38.2
cm.
Inscribed
on plate below the image borderline: (left) “Hobbema pin[x]”; (right) “Delauney
sc. 1883”.
Signed
in pencil below the image borderline: (right) “Delauney”.
Condition:
richly inked and well-printed, pencil signed impression with 2.5 cm margins around
the image borderline at the top and sides and a 5.8 margin on the lower edge
and laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper. The
sheet is in excellent condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds,
abrasions and foxing) with only a few specks and minor signs of handling in the
margins.
I
am selling this large, rare and sparklingly luminous etching after the most
famous of Hobbema’s paintings featuring the watermill at Singraven in Overijssel—Hobbema
must have been fascinated by this mill as he made around three dozen paintings
of it—for AU$246 (currently US$166.42/EUR151.01/GBP128.68 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 this superbly executed etching capturing the complexity
of natural patterns and tonal relationships, such as the way the tree limbs
seem to be woven into foliage and how the shapes of shadows in the clouds parallel
the shapes of the shadows in the trees, 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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