Eugène Bléry’s etching, “L'Arbre enché par un temps d'orage”, 1837

Eugène Bléry (aka Alexandre Stanislas Eugène Bléry) (1805–1887)

“L'Arbre enché par un temps d'orage” (The Tree Leaning in Stormy Weather), 1837.

Etching on wove paper, trimmed with a small margin around the image borderline and backed with a support sheet.

Size: (support sheet) 34 x 30.8 cm; (sheet) 11.4 x 14.4 cm; (image borderline) 10.5 x 13.6 cm.

Le Blanc 10 (Charles Le Blanc 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. 1, Paris, p. 359, cat. no. 10); Beraldi 224 (214–295 [10]) (Henri Béraldi 1885, “Les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle: Guide de l'Amateur d'Estampes Modernes”, vol. II, Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, pp. 129–130, cat. no. 214–195, no. 10; see https://archive.org/details/lesgraveursdu19e02berauoft/page/130/mode/1up).

Le Blanc offers the following description of this print: (transl.) “10. The Tree Leaning in Stormy Weather… above a stone, an oak [tree] leans over a pond; on the left, a chalet and deep in the trees in the shade; covered sky” (p. 359).

Condition: a richly inked impression with minor staining and laid upon a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper to provide wide margins.

I am selling this dark and moody etching showing a tree eerily lit in a thunderstorm, for the total cost of AU$294 (currently US$209.16/EUR203.05/GBP172.05 at the time of posting this print) including postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but no (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries.

If you are interested in purchasing this small and nuggety gem of landscape etching rarely seen on the art market, 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