Henri
Guérard (aka Henri Charles Guérard)
(1846–1897)
“Le
Printemps”, (publ.) 1886, after a fragment of Sandro Botticelli’s (aka
Sandro di Mariano Filepepe Botticelli; Alessandro Filipepe) (c.1444/5–1510)
famous painting, “Primavera” (c.1470s–80s) in the
collection of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primavera_(Botticelli)),
printed by L. Eudes (fl.1876–1888) and published in Paris
in the art periodical “Gazette des Beaux-Arts” in the December 1886 edition between
pages 474 and 475.
Drypoint,
aquatint and engraving printed in bistre coloured ink on laid paper, trimmed with small
margins around the platemark and backed with a support sheet providing wide
margins.
Size:
(sheet) 18 x 20.6 cm; (plate) 16 x 19.7 cm; (image borderline) 13.2 x 17.8 cm.
Lettered in plate below the image borderline: (left) “Sandro Botticelli. pinx./ Gazette
des Beaux-Arts.”; (centre) “LE PRINTEMPS/ (Fragment du tableau de l’Académie de
Florence.)”; (right) “H. Guérard
sc./ Imp. Eudes.”
Pierre
Sanchez & Xavier Seydoux 1998, “Les Estampes de la Gazette des Beaux-Arts
1859–1933”, Paris, l’Echelle de Jacob, p. 108, cat. 186-15; Claudie Bertin 526;
IFF 48-4; H. Béraldi 478;
Condition:
a strong and well-printed impression trimmed with a small margin around the platemark
and laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper providing generously
wide margins. Beyond a dot in the lower margin, the sheet is in a near pristine
condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains or foxing.
I
am selling this gloriously glowing and sensitively executed drypoint (with aquatint
and engraving) for AU$255 (currently US$170.44/EUR154.22/GBP135.75 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 marvellous study of a fragment of
Botticelli’s “Primavera” showing the mythological figures, the Three Graces—
Aglaea (“Shining”), Euphrosyne (“Joy”) and Thalia (“Blooming”)—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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