Charles Jacque (aka Charles
Émile Jacque; Charles Jaque) (1813–1894)
“Moulins à Montmartre”, 1846, printed by Auguste
Delâtre (aka Auguste Marie Delâtre) (1822–1907)
and published in Paris by Marchant (aka Alliance des Arts)
(fl.c1830–1880).
Etching with plate tone printed on chine collé (China)
in dark brown ink on wove paper with wide margins.
Size: (sheet) 24.5 x 32.8 cm; (plate) 10.3 x 16.1 cm;
(image borderline) 9.8 x 15.9 cm.
Inscribed on plate within the image borderline: (upper
left) “CH. J. 1846.”
Inscribed on plate below the image borderline: (left)
“[(A]lliance des Arts) Marchant, r. de Rivoli, 140.”; (right) Imp. Delâtre r. St
Jacques, 265”.
State ii (of ii) with the inscribed publication
details.
Guiffrey 134 (J.-J. Guiffrey 1866, “L'Oeuvre de Ch.
Jacque”, Paris, Lemaire, p. 76, cat. no. 134); IFF 186 (Jean Adhémar & Jacques
Lethève 1954, “Inventaire du Fonds Francais Apres 1800”, Paris, Bibliothèque
nationale de France, cat. no. 186).
Guiffrey (1866) offers the following description of
this print:
(transl.) “The mills of Montmartre […] their wings stand out from the front against
the misty sky. A house separates them. In the foreground, two figures &
pigs; on the left, a palisade; to the right at the back, shrubs” (p. 76).
See also the description offered by the British
Museum—note that the BM describes the sky as “stormy” whereas Guiffrey (1866)
sees it as “misty” (ciel brumeux): https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1889-0608-183.
Condition: a richly inked impression with generous
margins in a near pristine (museum quality) condition with no tears, holes,
folds, losses, abrasions, stains or foxing.
I am selling Jacque’s marvellous
and very poetic impression of the two windmills in Montmartre (Moulin Radet and
Moulin de Blute-Fin) silhouetted against the first/last vestiges of light for
AU$279 (currently US$212.11/EUR179.46/GBP154.88 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 romantic
vision of Paris in the 19th century executed by one of the luminaries of the
Barbizon School, 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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