Adrien Manglard’s etchings, “Le Soleil Couchant” & “Shipwreck in a Tempest”, 1753

Adrien Manglard (aka Adriaen Manglard) (1695–1760)

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“Le Soleil Couchant” (aka “The Setting Sun”; “Seascape with Sunset”), 1753

Etching on laid paper trimmed close to the image borderline with the lettered text below the image borderline and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 30.6 x 46.6 cm; (image borderline) 30 x 46.6 cm.

Lettered on plate below the image borderline: (left) “Adr. Manglard fecit Romæ 1753."

Robert-Dumesnil 23 (A P F Robert-Dumesnil1835–1871, “Le peintre-graveur français, ou catalogue raisonné des estampes gravées par les peintres et les dessinateurs de l'école française: Ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch”, vol. 8, Paris, cat. no. 23).

See also the description offered by the Rijksmuseum:

http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.148767.

Condition: a well-printed impression with many restorations and laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper.

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LOWER

“Shipwreck in a Tempest” (aka “Le Vaisseau Démâté”), 1753

Etching on laid paper trimmed along (or possibly slightly within) the plate mark and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 31.5 x 47.4 cm; (image borderline) 30 x 47 cm.

Lettered on plate below the image borderline: (left) “Adr. Manglard fecit Romæ 1753."

Robert-Dumesnil 26

Condition: a strong and well-printed early/lifetime impression (based on the quality of line) with a restored tear below the image borderline, a chipped lower left corner and laid on a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

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I am selling this pair of large and rare etchings capturing the drama of the portrayed shipwrecks in a layering of hatched strokes, for the total cost of AU$620 in total for the pair (currently US$470.88/EUR384.95/GBP347.69 at the time of this listing) 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 these remarkably strong seascapes executed in pure etched line, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.