Auguste-Hilaire Léveillé (1840–1900)
“Saint Jean-Baptiste”, 1898, wood-engraving after the
bronze, “Buste de Saint Jean-Baptiste”, 1879, by Auguste
Rodin (aka Pierre Auguste Rodin) (1840–1917) in the Musée du
Luxembourg, printed by H. de Banos (fl.c1898–1904 [and later?]) and published in the Gazette
des Beaux-Arts, 1st May 1898, inserted between pages 422 and
423.
Wood-engraving printed in black on buff coloured wove paper with full
margins backed with a support sheet.
Size: (sheet) 27 x 18.2 cm; (image borderline) 20.8 x 14.6
cm.
lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Rodin
inv./ GAZETTE DES BEAUX-ARTS”; (centre) “SAINT JEAN-BAPTISTE/ (Musée du
Luxembourg)”; (right) “Léveillé sc./ Imp. H. DE BANOS”.
Condition: a strong and well-printed (near faultless)
impression showing little or no sign of wear to the printing plate. The sheet
is in a near pristine condition and laid upon an archival support sheet of
millennium quality washi paper.
I am selling this incredibly finely executed wood-engraving
after Rodin’s sculpture, for AU$186 (currently US$124.32/EUR112.49/GBP99.02 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 this sensitively
engraved tonal translation of Rodin’s sculpture into a web of fine lines,
please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal
invoice to make the payment easy.
Note that I have listed another wood-engraving by Léveillé after Rodin that is still available at the time of this listing: https://www.printsandprinciples.com/2022/11/auguste-leveilles-wood-engraving.html.
This print has been sold
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