Ferdinand Gaillard (aka Claude-Ferdinand
Gaillard) (1834–1887)
“Vierge
de Jean Bellin”, 1866, engraving after a painting of the Madonna and Child
by Giovanni Bellini (c1459–1516), printed by Alfred Salmon (fl.1863–1894)
and published in the “Gazette des Beaux-Arts” (March, 1866, pp. 286–87) in
Paris.
Engraving on wove paper backed with a support
sheet providing wide margins.
Size: (support sheet) 38 x 27.9 cm; (sheet)
27.2 x 18.1 cm; (plate) 24.1 x 15.9 cm; (image borderline) 18.6 x 12.9 cm.
Inscribed in plate within the image
borderline: (lower centre) “JOANNES BELLINVS”.
Lettered in plate below the image borderline:
(left) “JEAN BELLIN PINXT./ Gazette des Beaux Arts”; (centre) “VIERGE
DE JEAN BELLIN.”; (right) “F. GAILLARD SCULPT./ Imp. A. Salmon à
Paris”.
Final state. According to Beraldi (1887), the
final state is state iii (of iii) with shading of sky on either side of the
canopy behind the Virgin and with publication details for the Gazette des
Beaux-Arts. The Grolier Club (1900) advises that there are four states with state
iv showing the publication details for the Gazette des Beaux-Arts (p. 4, cat.
no. 17).
Beraldi 17 iii (Henri Beraldi 1887, “Les
Graveurs du dix-neuvième siècle”, Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, vol. 6, p. 200,
cat. no. 17; see: https://archive.org/details/lesgraveursdu19e06berauoft/page/200/mode/2up);
IFF 33.
See also the description of this print offered
by the Harvard Museums of Art: https://hvrd.art/o/265024.
Condition: a well-printed (near faultless)
impression laid upon an archival support sheet of millennium quality washi paper.
The
sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions,
stains or foxing.
I am selling this exceptionally fine and very
beautiful engraving by one of most famous of the nineteenth century engravers
who is described by Félix Bracquemond as the “continuer and renovator of
burin engraving” (see Bann’s [2006], p. 124), for the total cost of AU$208
(currently US$145.22/EUR135.11/GBP120.18 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
print by an engraver with skills that (arguably) will never be surpassed—note
the finely rendered, near microscopic, details that are inscribed solely
by hand—please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you
a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.
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