Claude
Mellan (1598–1688)
“Council with
the Holy Spirit above the Gospel, Surrounded by Clergy (aka “Concilie met de
Heilige Geest boven het Evangelie, Omringd door geestelijken”; “Un Concile”),
1665, following the artist’s own design.
Engraving on
laid paper, trimmed with a small margin around the image borderline on the top
and sides, but within the borderline on the lower edge with loss of publication
details and lower right corner (now replenished) and backed with a support
sheet.
Size: (unevenly
trimmed sheet) 28.6 x 45.5 cm.
State iii (of
iii) showing a fragment of the banderole added in the third state; compare the
impressions of the third state and second states held by the Rijksmuseum: (state iii) http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.722392;
(state ii) http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.152753.
IFF 120-3(3) (Département des Estampes 1939–, “Inventaire
du Fonds Français: Graveurs du XVIIe Siècle”, vol., 17, Paris, Bibliothèque
Nationale , p. 89, cat. no. 120); Montaiglon 111 (Anatole de Montaiglon 1856.
“Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre de Claude Mellan d'Abbeville”, Abbeville, P
Briex, p. 126, cat. no. 111; see https://archive.org/details/catalogueraisonn00mont_0/page/126/mode/2up).
Anatole de
Montaiglon (1856) offers the following description of this print: (transl.) “A
Council. The book of the Gospels is open on a table placed in the centre of the
composition; beside it, a standing clerk reads a paper, and above it hovers the
Holy Spirit; on both sides are ranged bishops and seated or standing figures;
in the centre of the foreground, a man, kneeling on the right, offers a book to
a bishop seated on the left” (p. 126).
Condition: a
well-printed impression, trimmed along the platemark on the top and sides but
within the image on the lower edge with loss of the publication details. There
are significant restorations and replenished areas—notably the lower right
corner. Beyond these important condition issues, the sheet is in an otherwise
good condition with no significant stains and has been laid onto a support of
archival (millennium quality) washi paper.
I am selling
this large and very rare engraving by the artist famous for his technical
masterpiece of engraving inscribed with a single spiralling line, “Sudarium of
Saint Veronica” (aka “Veil of St Veronica”), for the total cost of AU$514
(currently US$344.04/EUR317.07/GBP279.06 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 amazing engraving—a true tour de force of
printmaking—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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