Academic Prints and Multiples
ACADEMIC STYLE
During the Renaissance, the first European fine art academies were established in Italy and would guide the style and standards of visual culture in the following centuries. Academic art became dominant across the continent in the 17th century, with artists coming together to offer instruction in this style of painting and sculpture.
The academic art period represented a significant change from the previous era when painters, sculptors and other artists were part of guilds and seen more as artisans than purveyors of culture. While patronage from the elite and the church remained pivotal, young artists were able to support themselves for the first time through academic exhibitions and an independent marketplace. The leading academies included the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in Paris in 1648 (which became the Académie des Beaux-Arts after the French Revolution) and the London Royal Academy of Arts formed in 1768 under the inaugural leadership of painter Joshua Reynolds.
Academy students sketched drawings based on prints, sculptures and, finally, live models. Movements including neoclassicism and romanticism were particularly popular in these art schools and institutions where the influence of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin was prominent. Beaux Arts architecture and furniture design drew on these movements, too, and, as they also originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the disciplines share common ground with academic painting and sculpture.
Although academic art was a major shift for artistic status when it began, by the middle of the 19th century it was viewed as stodgy and resistant to new ideas, with the subject matter of artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme generally limited to allegorical or mythological themes. Impressionism, realism and the other movements that engaged with contemporary issues that followed were direct reactions to the academic tradition, although it continued to inform the avant-garde as artists like Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso started their practices as academic realists.
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Style: Academic
Orientalism : Young Girls Playing - Original lithograph 1898
By Etienne Dinet
Located in Paris, IDF
Etienne Dinet
Orientalism : Young Girl Playing , 1898
Original lithograph (Champenois workshop)
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in)
INFORMATION: Li...
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1890s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
The Opera Singer : Mademoiselle Fel - Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Maurice Quentin DE LA TOUR (1704-1788)
Portrait of Mademoiselle Fel
Heliogravure after a pastel by the artist
Engraved by J. Chauvet
Printed signature in the plate
On vellum, 50 x 3...
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Early 20th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Naked Woman in the Bath - Original Etching Signed (Petrides #E2)
Located in Paris, IDF
Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938)
Naked Woman in the Bath, 1932
Original etching
Signed in pencil
On BFK Rives vellum 47 x 37 cm (c. 18.5 x 14.5 in)
INFORMATION : Printed in 1932, this e...
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1930s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Nude Woman Doing her Hair - Original Etching Signed (Petrides #E5)
Located in Paris, IDF
Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938)
Nude Woman Doing her Hair, 1932
Original etching
Signed in pencil
On BFK Rives vellum 47 x 37 cm (c. 18.5 x 14.5 in)
INFORMATION : Printed in 1932, this...
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1930s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Etching
Building a Ship - Original etching
Located in Paris, IDF
PERELLE Family (17th Century)
Building a Ship
Original Engraving
Signed in the plate
On laid paper, 15.5 x 28 cm
INFORMATION: This family of artists, led by Gabriel, the father, an...
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Late 17th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
“Yellow Crested Parrot”
Located in Southampton, NY
Hand colored copper plate engraving from “The History of Birds. Plate 117 published in 1776.. “Yellow Created Parrot” Dedicated to Daniele Farsetti, a well known art collector Veni...
Category
Late 18th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$850 Sale Price
29% Off
Landscape with Fishermen - Original etching
Located in Paris, IDF
PERELLE Family (17th Century)
Landscape with Fishermen
Original Engraving
Signed in the plate
On laid paper, 15.5 x 28 cm
INFORMATION: This family of artists, led by Gabriel, the f...
Category
Late 17th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Study of Women - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Maurice DENIS (1870 - 1943)
Study of Women, 1918
Original lithograph enhanced in pastel
Unsigned
On light cream tinted vellum 30.5 x 48 cm (c. 12 x 18.89 inch)
INFORMATION : Edited...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Young Woman Dressing Before Going to Prom - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Maurice DENIS (1870 - 1943)
Young Woman Dressing Before Going to Prom, 1918
Original lithograph enhanced in pastel
Unsigned
On light cream tinted vellum 49 x 31,5 cm (c. 19,2 x 12,4...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving of Flowering Tulip & Wild Garlic Plants
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Tulipa viridiscoloris, Fritillaria iuncifolns, Allium Vrsinum" depicting flowering tulip, fritillary and wild garlic plants fro...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Naked Women Under the Trees - Original Etching Signed (Petrides #E9)
Located in Paris, IDF
Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938)
Naked Women Under the Trees, 1932
Original etching
Signed in pencil
On BFK Rives vellum 47 x 37 cm (c. 18.5 x 14.5 in)
INFORMATION : Printed in 1932, th...
Category
1930s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Lying Naked Woman - Original Etching Signed (Petrides #E11)
Located in Paris, IDF
Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938)
Lying Naked Woman, 1932
Original etching
Signed in pencil
On BFK Rives vellum 47 x 37 cm (c. 18.5 x 14.5 in)
INFORMATION : Printed in 1932, this etching...
Category
1930s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Young Woman and Old Woman - Original Etching Signed (Petrides #E24)
Located in Paris, IDF
Suzanne VALADON (1865-1938)
Young Woman and Old Woman, 1932
Original etching
Signed in pencil
On BFK Rives vellum 47 x 37 cm (c. 18.5 x 14.5 in)
INFORMATION : Printed in 1932, this...
Category
1930s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Original Leipziger Messe International Leipzig Trade Fair vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original German vintage poster: International Leipzig Trade Fair Leipziger Messe in NYC.
Beginning Feb. 28th, 1937. Held in New York City. Th...
Category
1930s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
“Paris-London”
Located in Southampton, NY
Very nice original hand colored copper plate etching (aquatint) by the Hungarian born artist, Marianne L. Almasy. Depicts London with its double buses in the foreground and scenes of Paris in the background. Handwritten bottom left in pencil, original etching 206/295. Handwritten in pencil lower right, L. Marianne. Condition: Very good to excellent. Provenance: Sarasota, Florida estate. Certificate of authenticity verso (see photo). Professionally matted with a one inch solid oak frame in a medium walnut stain. Overall 24 by 19 inches.
Marianne Almasy...
Category
1980s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Etching
$325 Sale Price
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Landscape with a Bridge and Fishermen - Original etching
Located in Paris, IDF
PERELLE Family (17th Century)
Landscape with a Bridge and Fishermen
Original Engraving
Signed in the plate
On laid paper, 15.5 x 28 cm
INFORMATION: This family of artists, led by G...
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Late 17th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Bird and Beetle - Etching and watercolor (Natural History of Birds, 1741)
Located in Paris, IDF
George EDWARDS
Bird and beetle ('The Gowry Bird')
Original engraving, enhanced with watercolor
Printed signature in the plate
Dated, 1741
28.8 x 23.3 cm
Created for Volume I of the...
Category
1740s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Notre-Dame de Paris - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Michel Mathieux-Marie
Notre-Dame de Paris
Original drypoint etching
Handsigned in pencil
On BFK Rives vellum, 28,5 x 38 cm (c. 11,2 x 14,9 inch)
Numbered /100 copies
Excellent...
Category
1990s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Chartres La Mort de la Viegre X111”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original photo mechanical print handcolored throughout by the French artist, Lucy Garnot. Signed and titled bottom. Circa 1900. Condition is very go...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Archival Paper, Photogravure
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
Original 1924 Soviet Union Public Scientific Journal Flint vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original 1924 Soviet Union lithographic poster for a monthly magazine called "Flint". The magazine was a public scientific journal that dealt with the electrical revolution, biolog...
Category
1920s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$740 Sale Price
20% Off
Book, John Rylands Library, Manchester - Contemporary Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Photographed in 1987 in John Rylands Library, Manchester and was part of Richard Heeps iconic series 'Ordinary Places', which was his first colour collection. The exhibition was show...
Category
1980s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Birds Composition - "Svenska Faglar" - unique ornithology prints - set of 10
By Magnus von Wright
Located in Winterswijk, NL
*THE ARTWORKS WILL BE SOLD: UNFRAMED, WITH PASSE-PARTOUT*
Beautiful serie of artworks: Swedish Birds by Magnus von Wright
Very detailed ornithological prints.
Topic: Animals
Image ...
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19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Nymph of Eurydice - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Maurice DENIS (1870 - 1943)
Nymph of Eurydice
Original lithograph enhanced in pastel
Printed signature in the plate
On light cream tinted vellum 40 x 24,5 cm (c. 15,7 x 9,6 inch)
I...
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Early 20th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Venice, View of the Grand Canal - Original etching and watercolor, 1831
Located in Paris, IDF
Dionisio MORETTI
View of the Grand Canal, 1831
Original etching
Finely enhanced by hand with watercolor
On vellum 26 x 41 cm (c. 10.2 x 16 inch)
...
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1830s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
“Innocent Captivation Amusement Pastorale”
By Anthony Cardon
Located in Southampton, NY
Original stipple engraving on a verge type of hand laid paper. The overall size of the engraving is 15.75 inches by 12.75 inches The image size of the engraving is 14 inches by 12 i...
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Early 1800s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Laid Paper
$950 Sale Price
36% Off
Dodo, Abstract Signed Screenprint with Gold Leaf by Lebadang (aka Hoi)
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015)
Title: Untitled - Dodo
Medium: Silkscreen, signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Size: 31 x 31 in. (78.74 x 78.74 cm)
Category
1970s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
Food and the War! Original c. 1918 World War 1 vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: Food and the War! American wheat to win! Rare and very seldom seen original World War 1 authentic vintage poster. Archi...
Category
1910s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of woman by Gustave François - Engraving 44x54 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper without frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$184 Sale Price
44% Off
Greek Architecture Blueprint of Ancient Amphitheatre Cyanotype Print, Watercolor
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
Details:
+ Title: Ancient Roman Amphitheater
+ Year: 2022
+ Edition Size: 50
+ Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided
+ Measurements : 70x100 cm (28x 40 in.), a standard frame size
+ All cyanotype prints...
Category
2010s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Photographic Film, Emulsion, Watercolor, C Print, Lithograph, Monotype, ...
Original "Your Country's Call, Enlist Now" 1915 vintage British poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Your Country's Call. Isn't this Worth Fighting For? Enlist Now. Original WW1 poster, archival linen-backed vintage military poster.
Linen-backed and ...
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1910s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$1,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Flowering Pomegranate & Rock Rose: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper-plate engraving entitled "Cistusflore Albo, Balaustium Flore Minori Romanum, Cotinus", depicting flowering Pomegranate, Rock Rose...
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1640s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Flowering Hyacinth & Calla Plants: A Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving depicting flowering "Hyacinthus Comosus Spurius" (Hyacinth), "Hyacinthus Anglicus" (Blue Hyacinth), "Palma ...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
19th century color lithograph hares animal nature print wildlife
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Townsend's Rocky Mountain Hare" is an original color lithograph by John James Audubon. This artwork features two gray hares in a muted, cool-colored landscape.
5 1/2" x 8 1/4" art...
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Mid-19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
“Les Revers de la Fortune”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original stipple engraving with colors titled “Les Revers de la Fortune” (Reversal of Fortune) by the well known French engraver, Louis Marin Bonnet...
Category
1780s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Engraving
$760 Sale Price
20% Off
Original Le Puy En Velay, SNCF vintage travel poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Admiring the Original "Le Puy En - Velay" Vintage Poster The exquisite vintage poster for the old city of Le Puy En - Velay has inspired many art aficionados. ...
Category
1940s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a man by Hans Berger - Drawing 44x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on paper
Ed: 1 /100
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Crayon, Engraving
$184 Sale Price
44% Off
19th century engraving figurative landscape Victorian urban city scene signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"SEESAW--Gloucester, Massachusetts" is an original wood engraving after Winslow Homer. The artist initialed the piece in the lower right. This print depicts six children on a seesaw ...
Category
1870s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Traveling animals - Original etching enhanced with watercolor
Located in Paris, IDF
George EDWARDS
Traveling animals
Original engraving enhanced with watercolor
Signed in the plate and dated, 1746
28.6 x 23.5 cm
From Volume II of the Natural History of Birds, plat...
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1740s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Les Voila
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theophile Alexandre Steinlen (Swiss, 1859-1923)
Title: Les Voila
Year: 1915
Medium: Original lithograph
Edition: Numbered 73/100 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Size image: 16 ...
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Early 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
'Le Louvre et La Seine, ' by Phillipe Benoist, Four-color Lithograph
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This is a beautiful four-color lithograph of the Louvre by the Seine by Philippe Benoist. It is double-matted in light blue with a gold tone wooden frame.
Phillip Benoist was a p...
Category
19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Man and Sun Gold, Signed Abstract Screenprint by Lebadang
By Hoi Lebadang
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lebadang, Vietnamese (1922 - 2015)
Title: Untitled - Man and Sun
Medium: Screenprint, signed in pencil
Edition: EA
Size: 30 x 22 in. (76.2 x 55.88 cm)
Category
1970s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Screen
“Man with Magic Show”
Located in Southampton, NY
China Trade aquatint engraving. The plate was engraved by Dadley in London after drawings by Pu Qua of Canton and published in 1799 by W. Miller of Bond Street in London. Sight size 11.5 by 9.5 inches. Under glass. Silver leaf frame with wear consistent with age. Overall framed measurements are 13.5 by 11.5 inches. Not examined out of frame. Borghese label verso. Provenance: Sarasota collector.
Inscriptions read as follows:
Pu-Qua. Canton. Delin.
Dadley, London, Sculpt.
Published May 4, 1799, by W. Miller, Old Bond Street, London.
John Dadley...
Category
1790s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Aquatint
$340 Sale Price
20% Off
“Haughton in the County of Nottingham” (Near Newark Upon Trent)
By Johannes Kip
Located in Southampton, NY
An original hand colored engraving by Johannes 'Jan' Kip (1653-1722) of Haughton in the County of Nottinghamshire, one of the seats of Prince John Duke of ...
Category
Early 1700s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
"Rembrandt Self Portrait, 1636"
By Viktor de Jeney
Located in Southampton, NY
Here is a etching executed by master painter and copyist, Viktor de Jeney. Done circa 1965 using the same techniques employed by Rembrant when he executed his now most famous self portrait etching in 1642. Framed measurements are 15.5 by 12.5 inches in original white mat and one inch wood frame. Sheet size 8.25 by 8 inches.
De Jeney was born in Budapest, Hungary and emigrated to the United States in 1962 and settled in St. Louis, Missouri. He was known for his paintings of Native American Indians...
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1960s Academic Prints and Multiples
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Etching
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
Flowering Lily Plants: A 17th C. Besler Hand-colored Botanical Engraving
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored copper plate engraving entitled "Cataputia Vulgaris, Parietaria Sylvestris, Nummularia", depicting flowering Spanish Nut, Yellow Turk's-cap Lily, Yellow Turk's...
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1640s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Rialto Bridge, Venise - Original Handsigned Etching
Located in Paris, IDF
Jean Michel Mathieux-Marie
Rialto Bridge, Venise
Original drypoint etching
Handsigned in pencil
On vellum, 28,5 x 38 cm (c. 11,2 x 14,9 inch)
Numbered /100 copies
Excellent condition
Category
1990s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Hand-colored 1834 Joseph Paxton Botanical Engraving of Yellow Trumpet Flowers
By Joseph Paxton
Located in Alamo, CA
This is a hand-colored engraving of yellow trumpet flowers from Sir Joseph Paxton's (1803-1865) "Magazine of Botany and Register of Flowering Plants", published in 1834. This engravi...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Venice: View of the Grand Canal - Héliogravure, 1975
By Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto)
Located in Paris, IDF
After Giovanni Antonio Canaletto
Venice: View of the Grand Canal
Héliogravure after the original etching (Atelier Jacomet)
Printed signature i...
Category
1970s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving, Etching
Icarus & Phaeton - Etching (1897)
Located in Paris, IDF
ARTIST: after Auguste RODIN
TITLE : Icarus and Phaeton
MEDIUM : Etching/photogravure after the original drawing
SIGNATURE : Unsigned
YEAR : 1897
PAPER : Vellum
SIZE : 13 x 10"
...
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1890s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
Plums: George Brookshaw's Framed Hand-colored 19th C. Aquatint
Located in Alamo, CA
George Brookshaw's (1751-1823) beautiful "Plums" hand colored aquatint engraving from his "Pomona Brittanica", considered to be the finest British botanical large format treatise of the 19th-century. His engravings were unique for their rich tones and colors, elegant compositions with the fruit seeming to float on a mottled sumptuous background. There are purple, mustard-colored plums on brown branches with green leaves over a two-tone dark brown and light tan background.
The print is presented in an ornate bronze-colored wood frame with gold-colored inner and outer trims and a triple mat. The outer mat is a marbled light...
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Early 19th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
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Aquatint
Venice, Santa Chiara Island - Original etching and watercolor, 1831
Located in Paris, IDF
Dionisio MORETTI
Venice, Santa Chiara Island, 1831
Original etching
Finely enhanced by hand with watercolor
On vellum 26 x 41 cm (c. 10.2 x 16 inc...
Category
1830s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Watercolor, Etching
“Returning Home”
By Hermanus Jan Hendrik Rijkelijkhuysen
Located in Southampton, NY
Original etching on Ingres laid paper (watermarked, see last photograph) attributed to the hand of the well known Dutch artist, Hermanus Jan Hendrik Rijkelijkhuysen. No visible signature. Sheet size 9.25 by 12 inches. Sight size 7 by 9 inches. Under glass. Circa 1875. Condition is excellent. Professionally matted and framed in a walnut colored frame with gold leaf edge. Overall framed measurements are 12.75 by 14.5 inches. Gallery label verso. Provenance: A Sarasota, Florida collector.
Biography:
Hermanus Jan Hendrik Rijkelijkhuysen (1813-1883) was a landscape painter and etcher. Rijkelijkhuysen spent most of his life working in the vicinity of his birthplace Utrecht. Inspired by the polders on the one hand and the Utrechtse Heuvelrug on the other, he mainly painted and etched water...
Category
1870s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape with a Sailboat and Fishermen - Original etching
Located in Paris, IDF
PERELLE Family (17th Century)
Landscape with a Sailboat and Fishermen
Original Engraving
Signed in the plate
On laid paper, 15.5 x 28 cm
INFORMATION: This family of artists, led by...
Category
Late 17th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Etching
“On the Seine, Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original aquatint engraving of working river barges on the Seine in Paris, France. A horse drawn cart is seen loading or unloading product. Circa 1900. ...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Mezzotint
$300 Sale Price
20% Off
Freilicher, Composition, In Memory of My Feelings (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper. Paper Size: 11.937 x 11.937 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: ...
Category
1960s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Blaine, Composition, In Memory of My Feelings (after)
By Nell Blaine
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper. Paper Size: 11.937 x 11.937 inches, with centerfold, as issued. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the fo...
Category
1960s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
19th century color lithograph portraits patriotic American stars flags
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Presidents of the U.S." is an original hand-colored lithograph by Nathaniel Currier. It features the first eleven presidents of the United States.
14" x 10" art
23" x 19 1/8" frame
Nathaniel Currier was born March 27, 1813 to Nathaniel and Hannah Currier in Roxbury, Massachusetts. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to William S. and John Pendleton of Boston who had set up the first lithographic establishment in America. His apprenticeship served him well as he went on to be the largest publisher of lithographs. Mr. Maurer described Nat Currier as being very gentlemanly and liberal. As is evident to the success of the firm of Currier & Ives he was very devoted to his business.
Nat Currier had many friends including Horace Greely and P.T. Barnum. He was well known for his sense of humor and Harry T. Peters tells one story about P. T. Barnum. "Currier had heard that one day his friend, the great showman, had rushed into the barber shop of the old Park Hotel, at Beekman and Nassau Streets, to get a shave. Barnum had hurried up to Tom Higginson, the barber, and said, 'Tom, I'm in a hurry.' 'Sorry for it,' said Tom, 'but it's that gentleman's turn next.' 'That gentleman' was an unshaven irshman waiting for a ten-cent shave. Barnum turned to him and said, 'My friend, if you will let me have your turn, I'll pay for what you have done.' The gentleman consented, and, as Barnum found out later, had a full job done - absolutely everything the house had. The check was for a dollar and sixty cents. When Currier heard this story he found the very Irishman and had him pose. The result was the famous cartoon, "The Man that Gave Barnum 'His Turn.'"
Nathaniel was married twice; his first wife was Miss Eliza West of Boston. He had one son with Eliza, Edward West Currier. In 1847 he married Miss Laura Ormsbee of Vermont. Laura and Nathaniel are memorialized in the famous N. Currier lithograph The Road Winter...
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1840s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Projet d'éventail - Femme attablée à la lecture et danse devant le Moulin-Rouge
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Cette lithographie en forme d’éventail représente une jeune élégante de la Belle Époque, accoudée à une petite table devant un livre entrouvert et un bouquet de fleurs. Elle semble p...
Category
Early 1900s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne), " Lithograph after Drawing by Adolphe Willette
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne)" is a print watermarked PL BAS after a drawing by Adolphe Willette. It depicts a general with his army and a young girl.
15 3/4" x 12" art
23" x 19 1/4" frame
Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857 – 4 February 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Willette ran as an "anti-semitic" candidate in the 9th arrondisement of Paris for the September 1889 legislative elections.
Biography
Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne.
He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. Whether comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or political satire, his work is instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set Pierrot upon a lofty pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France, and established Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable, and essentially good-hearted, in the affections of the nation.
Willette is at once the modern Watteau of the pencil, and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional section of the public. Always a poet, and usually gay, fresh, and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more "charming" side of love, often pure and sometimes extremely materialistic. Willette frequently reveals himself bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they be ground down under the heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims ot unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment. There is charm even in his thrilling apotheosis of the guillotine, and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of Death itself.
The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms "Cemoi", "Pierrot", "Louison", "Bebe", and "Nox", but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, Le Courrier français, and published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of Busch. He decorated several "brasseries artistiques" with wall-paintings, stained glass, &c., notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale...
Category
1890s Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Black and White
17th Century map of Cumberland, UK by Robert Morden
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Robert Morden (British, circa 1650 – 1703)
A map of Cumberland with hand colouring
An engraving
14.1/4 x 16.5/8 in. (36.5 x 42.5 cm.)
Category
17th Century Academic Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
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