André Malardot’s etching, “Environs de Metz”, 1867

André Malardot (aka Charles-André Malardot) (1817–1879)

“Environs de Metz”, 1867, plate 282 from the fifth volume of prints produced by the Société des Aquafortistes, “Eaux-Fortes Modernes” (Modern Etchings), published in 1867 by Cadart & Luquet (fl.1863–1867) and printed by Auguste Delâtre (aka Auguste Marie Delâtre) (1822–1907) in Paris.

Etching with plate tone on chine collé (China) on ivory laid paper.

Size: (sheet) 33.7 x 24.2 cm; (plate) 24.5 x 17 cm; (image borderline/chine collé) 23.2 x 16 cm.

Numbered on plate within the image borderline: (upper-right corner) “282”.

Lettered on plate below the image borderline: (left) “Malardo sculp./ Paris, CADART & LUQUET, Editeurs.”; (centre) “ENVIRONS DE METZ.”; (right) “Imp.Delâtre,Rue St. Jacques,303,Paris.”

IFF 31 (Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes); Beraldi 8 (Henri Beraldi 1885, “Les Graveurs du dix-neuvième siècle”, 12 vols, Paris).

See also the description of this print offered by the British Museum:

https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1867-1214-45;

the Art Institute Chicago:

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/47277/environs-of-metz;

and the National Gallery of Australia:

 https://artsearch.nga.gov.au/detail.cfm?IRN=35079.

Condition: richly inked and well-printed impression in excellent condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, losses, abrasions or significant stains).

I am selling this deeply romantic etching of a shadowy rock-walled pathway leading into bright sunlight—note the artist’s subtle skill in leaving a trace of plate-tone to render the dark foreground and removing any residue plate tone to the area of intense light in the middle distance—for a total cost of AU$273 (currently US$178.26/EUR163.52/GBP146.32 at the time of this listing) 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 beautiful etching showing the artist’s shared vision of landscape with Rodolphe Bresdin (1822–1885)—summed up marvellously by Joris-Karl Huysmans in “Against the Grain” (Dover, 1969) as searching for “the rarest perfumes of visual splendours”—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.