Francesco
Paolo Michetti (1851–1929)
“L'Enfant
au Panier” (aka “Little
Girl with a Basket”), c1875, printed in Paris by Alfred Cadart
(1828–1875) and published as an insert between pages 290 and 291 (see https://archive.org/details/gazettedesbeauxa21pariuoft/page/n329/mode/2up)
in the art periodical, “Gazette des Beaux-Arts”, vol. 21 (March 1880) that offers
the following insight regarding this print:
(transl.) “…the
plate we are publishing, both because of its small size, which allows it to
enter our review, and because of its particular merit. It is due to a young
Italian painter already greatly appreciated among us, because the painting [he] reproduces, the Little Girl with the Basket […] This etching is the first
engraved by M. Michetti; we do not know of any other example of a painter who,
at the first attempt, thus made himself master of the process. […] as has been
said. Mr. Michetti was exceptionally happy.” (p. 289 [https://archive.org/details/gazettedesbeauxa21pariuoft/page/289/mode/2up]).
Etching (with
drypoint?) on cream laid paper.
Size: (sheet)
28 x 18.5 cm; (plate) 24 x 16.1 cm; (image borderline) 20.1 x 12 cm.
Inscribed in
plate within the image borderline with the artist’s signature at lower right.
Lettered in
plate below the image borderline: (left) Paolo Michetti, del. et sc./ Gazette
des Beaux-Arts.; (centre) “L'ENFANT AU PANIER”; (right) “Imp.Cadart.Paris.”
State v (of vi)
with the publication details of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts.
The Rijksmuseum
offers the following description of this print: (transl.) “A Roma girl with a
basket on her arm in the woods” (http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.154844).
Condition: a
richly inked, well-printed, near faultless impression in pristine condition
with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, stains, foxing or signs of handling.
I am selling
this small gem of an etching that I understand is one of the artist’s first prints
(or is certainly the first to reproduce one of his paintings)—note the
marvellous transition of finely laid lines rendering the young girl’s face to
the almost calligraphic strokes of what may to be drypoint describing the grass
at her feet—for AU$322 (currently US$238.48/EUR201.97/GBP173.19 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 remarkable etching showing the influence of Mariano
Fortuny (a close friend of the artist) in the use of freely laid strokes that I
see as aligned with the spirit of Impressionism, 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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