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Jean BérainUntitled /// French Ornaments Designs Architecture Jean Bérain Old Master PrintCirca: 1711
Circa: 1711
$450
£347.70
€401.98
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About the Item
Artist: Jean Berain (the Elder) (French, 1640-1711)
Title: "Untitled" (Plate 35)
Portfolio: Ornemens Inventez par J. Berain (Ornament Designs Invented by J. Berain)
Circa: 1711 (First edition)
Medium: Original Engraving and Etching on watermarked laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown, likely Paris, France
Publisher: Jacques III Thuret, Paris, France
Reference: Berlin Kat. No. 343; Milliard No. 19; Brunet I, No. 780; Guilmard page 27, 89; Weigert
Sheet size: 18.5" x 13.63"
Image size (platemark): 10.88" x 9.5"
Condition: Some light soiling and an area of minor discoloration in lower center and right margins. Has been professionally stored away for decades. it is otherwise a strong impression in excellent condition
Very rare
Notes:
Provenance: private collection - Aspen, CO. Engraved by an unknown French artist (Active: Early 18th Century) after a drawing by French artist Jean Berain (the Elder) (1640-1711). Comes from Berain's one volume "Ornemens Inventez par J. Berain", (c. 1711) (First edition), which consists of 134 engravings by various artists. Printed in one color from one copper plate: black. Unidentified watermark with a heart? and a G? in center of sheet. There are examples of this work in many permanent museum collections.
Biography:
Jean Berain, the Elder (born October 28, 1637, Saint-Mihiel, France—died January 24, 1711, Paris) was a French draftsman, engraver, painter, and designer who was called by his contemporaries the oracle of taste in all matters of decoration.
Trained under the great French decorator Charles Le Brun, Berain was working at the Louvre when appointed, in 1674, royal designer to King Louis XIV of France. After the death of Le Brun in 1690, he was commissioned to compose and supervise the exterior decoration of Louis’s ships. Skillful in adapting the work of his predecessors, he designed tapestries, accessories, furniture, costumes, and decorations for opera, court festivals, and public solemnities. His work inspired the ornamentation of rooms and furniture by other cabinetmakers, such as André-Charles Boulle, whose elaborate work in etched brass and tortoiseshell marquetry owes much of its inspiration to Berain’s designs. Other craftsmen followed Boulle in using Berain for their chief source, and soon he exercised enormous influence all over Europe.
Berain satisfied Louis’s passionate appetite for splendour and grand entertainment. He designed chimneypieces, drapery, ornamental mounts, andirons, faience, chandeliers, sconces, and wall panels—all filled with such fantastic iconography as flaming hearts being hammered on anvils by cupids, assorted animals integrated into florid arabesques, and similar grotesqueries. As a result of Louis’s fondness for Oriental art, Berain delved into Chinese motifs, which became the height of fashion in the mid-18th century after his death. His decorative experiments during the last part of Louis’s reign influenced subsequent Rococo artists in fields ranging from furniture to porcelain.
Berain designed the stage decor for extravagant theatrical productions devised by Molière. His son Jean Berain the Younger (1678–1726), best known as an engraver, was his pupil and succeeded to his official functions. His brother Claude Berain (d. 1726?) was an engraver to the king.
- Creator:Jean Bérain
- Creation Year:Circa: 1711
- Dimensions:Height: 18.5 in (46.99 cm)Width: 13.63 in (34.63 cm)
- Medium:
- Movement & Style:
- Period:1710-1719
- Condition:
- Gallery Location:Saint Augustine, FL
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU121215150432
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