Louis Desplaces (aka Philippe
Louis Campagnon Desplaces) (1682–1739)
“Rape of a
Sabine” (aka “Enlèvement d’une Sabine”), c.1735,
after an intermediary drawing by Charles Joseph Natoire
(1700–1777), after the marble sculpture, “L'Enlèvement des Sabines”, 1582,
by Giambologna (aka Jean Bologne; Jean de
Bologne des Flandres; Jean Boulogne; Jehan Boulongne; Giovanni Bologna)
(1529–1608) in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Piazza della Signoria (Florence, Italy),
published by Desplaces in Paris.
Engraving with
etching on laid paper with a lettered watermark, backed with a support sheet.
Size: (uneven sheet)
36.4 x 23 cm; (plate) 33.4 x 20.5 cm; (image borderline) 30.4 x 19.3 cm.
Lettered on
plate below the image borderline: (left) “a Paris chez Desplaces”; (centre) “ENLÈVEMENT
D’UNE SABINE/ Groupe de Marbre fait par Jean de Boulogne a Florence.”; (right) “Dessiné
par Ch. Natoire Et gravé par L. Desplaces.”
IFF 96 (Inventaire
du Fonds Français 195, “Graveurs du XVIIIe Siècle: Deny (Mlle Jeanne)–Du
Duy-Delage”, vol. VII, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes,
cat. no. 96).
The Cleveland
Museum of Art offers a brief description of this print:
Condition: well-printed,
strong impression trimmed slightly unevenly with a small margin around the
platemark and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.
There is a strengthening patch on the lower right
corner (verso) but this is not visible recto and there is a restored chipped tip to the upper right
corner, otherwise the sheet is in a very good condition (i.e. there are no
holes, folds, abrasions, stains or foxing).
I am selling
this beautifully executed engraving, giving a landscape context to the
spiralling rhythms of Giambologna’s famous sculpture, for AU$244 (currently US$158.48/EUR146.33/GBP128.14
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 this sensitively rendered engraving, 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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