Alfred Dannequin (aka Alfred
Joseph Dannequin) (?–1890)
“Plateau de Belle-Croix,
Forêt de Fontainebleau”, 1869, a proof-state impression before lettering
for publication in Paris by Cadart & Luce (Alfred Cadart [1828–1875])
and printing by Abraham Beillet (fl.1850–76/83) as an illustration to the
art periodical, “L'Illustration Nouvelle.” See description of the
lettered/published state offered by MAH (Musée d'art et d'histoire, Ville de
Genève): https://www.mahmah.ch/collection/oeuvres/plateau-de-belle-croix-foret-de-fontainebleau/e-2015-0436-009.
Regarding this print and the artist, the
Museum
of New Zealand (Te Papa Tongarewa) offers the following marvellous insights: “In
this highly atmospheric, romantic etching, evocative—probably unconsciously—of
the beautiful precision and humility towards nature of Caspar David Friedrich,
we see three ancient, leafless oaks standing out against a buttermilk sky.
Glacial boulders surround a brackish pond and an unknown man, probably rendered
deliberately small, poses with a staff at the centre. The scen[e] is located in
the Forest of Fontainebleau, the favoured location of the Barbizon School of
French realist painters including Corot and Daubigny. The printmaker Alfred
Joseph Dannequin (d. 1890) was a little-known associate of the Barbizon School”
(https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/37739).
Etching, drypoint and dot-roulette on tissue-thin washi paper, proof-state impression before lettering for publication with
wide margins and pencil notations giving descriptive details about the print
inscribed along the lower edge of the margin.
Size: (sheet) 27.2 x 40.8 cm; (plate) 18.2 x 23.6
cm; (image borderline) 15 x 23 cm.
Beraldi 2 (Henri Béraldi 1886, “Les Graveurs
du XIXe Siècle: Guide de l'Amateur d'Estampes Modernes: CHERRIER–DIEN”, vol. V,
Paris, Librairie L. Conquet, p. 89, cat. no. 2 of 4 titles listed).
Condition: a richly inked faultless proof-state
impression with generously wide margins. The sheet is in a near pristine
condition with no tears, holes, folds, abrasions, significant stains or foxing
but there is a pencil inscribed notation from a previous collection giving the
critical details about the print.
I am selling this exceptionally rare, proof-state
impression before lettering with the title and publication details, for AU$281
in total (currently/approximately US$190.69/EUR174.79/GBP146.81 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. Note that payment is in Australian dollars (AU$281) as this is
my currency.
If you are interested in purchasing this beautifully
moody twilight scene showing not only a figure resting on a cane near a pond in
the Fontainebleau Forest—a forest sixty kilometres southeast of Paris that was a
favourite painting location for the Barbizon School of artists—but, more
interesting to me, also showing some of the sparkle of the brilliantly white sand—arguably
the purest in the world and used (I understand) by the Murano glassworks—and
rocky bars of the region (see https://www.mindat.org/loc-1698.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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