Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine (aka Jean Pierre Norblin de la Gordaine) (1745–1830)
“Raising of Lazarus (Small Plate)”, 1784
Etching on fine wove (Japanese) paper trimmed slightly within the platemark on the lower margin and backed with a support sheet.
Size: (sheet) 16.7 x 13.3 cm; (image borderline) 14.6
x 12.4 cm.
Inscribed on plate with the artist’s monogram and date
on the step below Christ and partially erased below the image borderline at
lower left.
Hillemacher 1848 8 (Frédéric Hillemacher 1848/77,
“Catalogue des estampes qui composent l'oeuvre de J. P. Norblin”, Paris, p. 15,
cat. no. 8); LeBlanc 5 (Charles LeBlanc 1854, “Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes,
contenant un dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations: ouvrage destiné à
faire suite au Manuel du libraire par J.Ch. Brunet”, vol. 3, Paris, p. 105,
cat. no. 5).
The British Museum offers the following description of
this print:
“Raising of Lazarus: interior of a vault, with Christ
standing on the right, surrounded by figures, and Lazarus raising from his
grave on the left”
(https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1853-0312-285).
See also the description of this print at the
Minneapolis Institute of Art (https://collections.artsmia.org/art/121352/raising-of-lazarus-jean-pierre-norblin-de-la-gourdaine)
and at the Rijksmuseum (http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.158683).
Condition: richly inked and well-printed impression trimmed
slightly within the lower platemark and laid onto a support sheet of archival
(millennium quality) washi paper. Beyond a small hole in the lower margin
(visible only when the print is held up to the light) the sheet is in an
excellent condition with no tears, folds, abrasions, stains or foxing.
I am selling this small jewel of an etching by one of the
most important artists of the Enlightenment in Poland for AU$322 in total
(currently US$247.27/EUR205.16/GBP180.03 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 following in the tradition of Rembrandt's use of
dramatic (chiaroscuro) lighting, 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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