Jacques Beltrand, “La Cathédrale d'Amiens”, 1913

Jacques Beltrand (1874–1977)

“La Cathédrale d'Amiens”, 1913, a chiaroscuro colour woodcut on fine laid Japanese paper with a small margin around the image borderline printed in a transition of burnt umber and sanguine with the addition of pale ochre and backed with a support sheet. This is an unsigned proof with minor restorations (see upper cloud at centre).

Size: (sheet) 27 x 18.1 cm; (image borderline) 24.8 x 15.7 cm.

IFF 42 (Jean Laren 1937, “Inventaire du Fonds Français après 1800”, Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes, vol. 2, p. 160, cat. no. 42 [see https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5488531x/f169]).

The National Gallery of Australia offer a brief description of this print (not reproduced): https://searchthecollection.nga.gov.au/object/99564.

Condition: a strong and well-printed impression with no significant stains. There are minor restorations to small breaks in the tissue-thin paper and the print has been laid onto a support sheet of archival (millennium quality) washi paper.

I am selling this very beautiful colour woodcut of the Amiens Cathedral (aka Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens; Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Amiens) in the city of Amiens located in the Somme River valley north of Paris, France, for AU$215 in total (currently US$142.37/EUR130.14/GBP111.17 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 eye-catching woodcut, please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.