Adolphe
Crauk (1865–1945)
“La
Danse de L’Opéra”, late 1800s, hand-signed by the artist with
a dedication written in pencil, after Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s (1827–1875) sculpture, “La Danse”, 1868,
with the original sculpture now in the Musée d'Orsay and a copy of it executed
in 1963 by the sculptor Jean Juge (1898–1968) on the facade of the
Palais Garnier (see https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Danse_(Carpeaux)).
Note that my attribution
of the date (late 1800s) is based on the description by Fine Printed Inc.com of
a similar engraving by Adolphe Crauk, “La Vierge A La Pomme”, after Hans Memling
(see https://fineprintedinc.com/adolphe-crauk-hans-memling-the-virgin-madonna-with-an-apple-1800s-1119-p.asp)
and the certainty that “La Danse de L’Opéra” must have been executed after Carpeaux
had completed his sculpture in 1868.
Engraving on
wove paper, hand-signed in pencil by the artist with a pencil inscribed dedication to René Padovani(?), trimmed with a small margin around the
platemark and backed with a support sheet.
Size: (sheet) 42.5
x 26 cm; (plate) 39.9 x 25 cm; (image borderline) 34.6 x 20.8 cm.
Lettered in
plate below the image borderline: (left) “J.B.CARPEAUX SCULPTEUR”; (centre) “LA
DANSE DE L’OPÉRA”; (right) “A.CRAUX GRAVEUR”.
Hand-signed in
pencil by the artist with a pencil inscribed dedication at lower right.
Condition: a
well-printed impression with small margins laid upon an archival support sheet
of millennium quality washi paper. There are marks in the margin at lower left,
otherwise the sheet is in a good condition with no tears, holes, folds,
abrasions or significant stains.
I am selling
this large and exquisitely rendered engraving by a somewhat forgotten engraver—note
that (surprisingly) none of the major art museums hold a print by this artist—for
the total cost of AU$242 (currently US$174.36/EUR152.74/GBP127.48 at the time
of posting 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 extraordinarily subtle and technically superb
engraving—a true tour de force of engraving—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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