Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine (aka Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gordaine) (1745–1830)
“Head of a Man with a Full Black Beard,” (MIA
title), 1778
Etching and drypoint on ivory wove (China) paper
with a small margin around the platemark and backed with a support sheet.
Size: (oval sheet) 3.8 x 3.4 cm; (oval plate) 3.1
x 2.8 cm.
Inscribed on plate at left: “Nf./ 1778”.
State iii (of iii) lettered with date. Hillemacher
(1848) advises that the first state shows the man without his beard; second
state shows the man with a fuller beard and his
left shoulder. Hillemacher does not offer a description of the third state
but clearly more of the beard is shown than in second state. Accordingly, I
have attributed this impression to the third state as the man’s beard is as
full as I can envisage a beard might be.
Hillemacher 1848 68 (Frédéric Hillemacher 1848,
“Catalogue des estampes qui composent l'oeuvre de Jean-Pierre Norblin”, Paris,
Lacrampe et Fertiaux, pp. 38–39, cat. no. 68).
The British Museum offers the following
description of this print:
“Head of a stout bearded man, looking to right;
within oval. 1778”
(https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1853-0312-342).
See also the description of this print at the
Minneapolis Institute of Art:
Condition: richly inked and well-printed,
faultless impression with a small margin trimmed around the oval platemark. The
sheet is in near pristine condition (i.e. there are no tears, holes, folds,
abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of use) and is laid onto a support sheet
of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.
I am selling this small jewel of an etching—the
oval image is approximately the size of a thumbprint—by one of the most
important artists of the Enlightenment in Poland for AU$280 (currently US$200.89/EUR169.57/GBP153.52
at the time of posting this print) including Express Mail (EMS) 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 small
masterwork from the 1700s in the final state where the portrayed man has a full
beard unlike the earlier two states where it “grew” from the first state where
this man was beardless, 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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