Armand Gautier (aka Armand Désiré Gautier) (1825–1894)—a close friend of Gustave Courbet (1819–1877) and a student of Léon Cogniet (1794–1880)
“Work: Man Sawing Wood” (aka “Le Travail: Homme Sciant du
Bois”), 1860, printed in 1864, possibly published by Alfred Cadart
(1828-1875) in “Cahier d'eaux-fortes” (based on this print being listed by
Beraldi [1887] with this heading [vol. 6, p. 239).
Note that Armand Gautier made a related etching, “Le Travail”,
showing a woman at work in a laundry, published by Cadart in “Catalogue complet
d'eaux-fortes originales et inédites composées et gravées par les artistes
eux-mêmes...” (1873–1876) (see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8470159z/f51.item).
Etching with pale plate tone on wove paper.
Size: (sheet) 20 x 17.9 cm; (plate) 12 x 10.1 cm.
Inscribed in plate at lower left: “A Gautier 1860”.
Beraldi 2 (Henri Beraldi 1887, “Les Graveurs du XIXe Siècle: DORÉ
- GAVARD”, vol. 6, Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, p. 249, cat. no. 2 [Cahier d'eaux-fortes
(Cadart)])
Musée des beaux-arts du Canada offers a description of this
print: https://www.beaux-arts.ca/collection/artwork/le-travail-homme-sciant-du-bois.
Condition: a well-printed impression with minor marks in the
margin, otherwise the sheet is in an excellent condition with no tears, holes,
folds, abrasions or significant stains.
I am selling this interesting etching showing a timber worker
using what must be a back-breaking, but no doubt effective way, to saw logs single
handed, for the total price of AU$234 (currently US$153.27/EUR141.22/GBP120.85
at the time of posting this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) 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 seldom seen etching
on the art-market with the (to my eyes) nobility of Jean François Millet’s etchings
of farm-workers (compare, for instance, with Millet’s etching, “Peasant with a
Wheelbarrow”, 1855 (https://www.printsandprinciples.com/2022/07/jean-francois-millets-etching-peasant.html),
please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal
invoice to make the payment easy.
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