Ferdinand Gaillard (aka Claude Ferdinand
Gaillard) (1834–1887)
“La Vierge au Donateur”,
1865, after Giovanni Bellini’s (c1459–1516)
painting, “Virgin and Child Blessing a Kneeling
Donor, with Four Saints”, c1500,
(now reattributed to Marco
Bello [c1431/36–1523] after Bellini), that was once in the Galerie Pourtalès
(as inscribed on plate), but now in the Morgan Library & Museum, New York
City, published in “La Gazette des Beaux-Arts”, in January 1865, and printed by
Alfred Salmon (fl.1863–1894) in Paris.
Engraving on buff coloured chine collé (China) on heavy wove paper
with wide margins as published.
Size: (sheet) 31.6 x 41.6
cm; (plate) 21.7 x 27.7 cm; (chine collé) 20.5 x 26.3 cm; (image borderline)
14.1 x 20.1 cm.
Lettered below the image
borderline: (left) “JEAN BELLIN PINXT./ Gazette des Beaux-Arts.”; (centre) “LA
VIERGE AU DONATEUR./ (GALERIE POURTALÈS)”; (left) “F. GAILLARD SCULPT./ Imp. A.
Salmon, Paris.”
State iii (of iii) with
the addition of lettered publication details.
Beraldi 16 (Henri Beraldi
1885–92, “Les graveurs du 19e siècle; guide de l'amateur d'estampes modernes”,
vol. 6, Paris, L Conquet, p. 199, cat. no. 16); IFF 33 (Jean Adhémar &
Jacques Lethève 1954, “Inventaire du fonds français après 1800”, vol. 8, Paris,
Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, p. 316, cat. no. 33).
Interestingly, in the
description of this print Beraldi advises that the engraving is executed by single
rows of parallel lines (i.e. almost entirely without cross-hatching): “Gravure
exécutée presque avec seul rang tailles” (p. 199).
Note that Henri Beraldi’s
catalogue raisonné for Gaillard may be viewed online or downloaded
free-of-charge at archive.org:
The British Museum offers
the following description of this print:
“Virgin and Child with
four saints and donator, after Giovanni Bellini; the
Virgin seen three-quarter length, sitting at far right with Christ Child on her
lap blessing a donator who kneels before them; St Paul,
St George and two female saints looking on”
See also the description
of this print offered by Harvard Art Museums:
Condition: an
exceptionally fine, near faultless impression with generously wide margins in pristine
condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds, losses, abrasions, stains, foxing
or signs of use).
I am selling this important
early engraving by Gaillard, executed in a style that sets him apart from
other engravers, as Henri Beraldi (1887) insightfully writes, “…where another
engraver would put one line, he [Gaillard] puts ten, thanks to the exceptional
keenness of his sight” (“Catalogue of Engravings by Ferdinant Gaillard”, The
Grolier Club, p viii), for the total cost of AU$207 (currently US$143.78/EUR127.78/GBP115.18
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 museum-quality impression of a major engraving by one of the finest
engravers of 19th century, 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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