Maxime Lalanne (François Antoine Maxime Lalanne)
(1827–1886)
“Rade de Bordeaux (Janvier 1868)” (aka “Bordeaux, Effet de Neige”; “Bordeaux, Snow Effect”),
1868, printed by Auguste Delâtre (aka Auguste
Marie Delâtre) (1822–1907) and published by Cadart & Luce (fl. 1867–1870/1) as plate 1 for Une Société de
Peintres-Graveurs a L'Eau-Forte for the first issue of “L'Illustration
Nouvelle” in 1868 in Paris. See an online view of all the prints (including
this etching which is the first plate) in this publication offered by Gallica –
BnF: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8527596n.r.
Etching on fine laid paper (watermarked)
with full margins as published.
Size: (sheet) 31.2 x 40.1 cm;
(plate) 15.8 x 23.8 cm; (image borderline) 13.3 x 21.5 cm.
Numbered in plate above the
image borderline: (right) “1”.
Inscribed in the plate: (lower
left beneath the hay) “Lalanne”; (lower left along the wall) “Bordeaux Jer
1868.”
Lettered in plate below the
image borderline: (left) “Maxime Lalanne, del. et sc.”; (centre) “RADE DE
BORDEAUX./ (Janvier 1868.)/ CADART & LUCE, Editeurs. Rue Nve des
Mathurins, 58, Paris.”; (right) “Imp. Delâtre, Paris.”
State vi (of ix) before later publication
(state viii) in Hamerton’s “Etching and
Etchers” (3rd ed., 1880) in London.
Villet 48 vi (Jeffrey M Villet
2010, “The Complete Prints of Maxime Lalanne”, Washington, art@home fine prints,
[n.p.] cat. no. 48, state VI); Beraldi 50; IFF 18.
See descriptions of this print
at the British Museum; National Gallery of Art; Fine Arts Museums of San
Francisco.
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1872-0511-86;
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.70349.html;
https://art.famsf.org/maxime-lalanne/rade-de-bordeaux-janvier-1868-19633031900.
Condition: a well-printed
impression with generously wide margins. Beyond small tears (approx. 1 cm) to
the lower margin, marks to the upper margin and surface dustiness, the sheet is
in a good condition for its age.
I am selling this etching described
by the printer (Auguste Delâtre) as “a little masterpiece” and evaluated by the
writer/artist/publisher, Philip Gilbert Hamerton, in “Etching and Etchers”
(3rd edition), with the proposal that “[f]ew modern etchings have
been more thoroughly successful than this” (p. 160), for the total cost of AU$247
(currently US$190.06/EUR156.58/GBP134.80 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 masterwork of etching—note how convincing Lalanne has been in suggesting
the effect of lightly piled snow on the dockside and blurred details fading into
the wintery grey sky—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
