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The Great Draughtsman Sitting (Self-Portrait)
By Jacques Villon
Located in Chicago, IL
This etching is signed and numbered by the artist and was printed in an edition of 50. The references for this work are: Auberty & Perussaux 266 and Ginestet & Pouillon E. 385 II/II...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Venus and the Rose (2nd State)
By Giorgio Mantovano Ghisi
Located in Chicago, IL
Engraving after Luca Penni
Category
16th Century Old Masters Prints and Multiples
Materials
Engraving
Les Plaisirs du Bal [before 1st State] (The Pleasures of the Ball)
By (After) Jean-Antoine Watteau
Located in Chicago, IL
Les Plaisirs du Bal (before 1st State), 1730
The Pleasures of the Ball
Pure etching only by Gérard Jean-Baptiste Scotin II (born Paris 1698)
495 x 640 mm.; 19 3/8 x 25 1/8 inches
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Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
![Les Plaisirs du Bal [before 1st State] (The Pleasures of the Ball)](https://a.1stdibscdn.com/archivesE/upload/a_3653/1523031811466/Watteau_after_The_Pleasures_of_the_Ball_master.jpg?width=240 "les plaisirs clothing")
Allegorical Figure, Holding a Ball
By Giorgio Mantovano Ghisi
Located in Chicago, IL
Provenance:
Edouard Schultze (Lugt 906)
References:
Bartsch 34
Boorsch & Lewis 38
Notes:
A fine impression of this engraving. Boorsch and Lewis state that this work dates from “the mid-1560s” and suggest that it was after a work by Giulio Romano...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Engraving
The Large Village Fair
By Cornelis Dusart
Located in Chicago, IL
The Large Village Fair, 1685
Etching
268 x 377 mm.; 10 1/2 x 13 1/4 inches
Watermark:
Arms of Amsterdam
Provenance:
H. Freiherr von und zu Aufsess (Lugt 2749)
M. Menge (Lugt 1893a).
References:
Hollstein 16
Notes:
A fine, early impression (before spots on the sky) of one of Dusart’s most powerful and fanciful works.
Concerning the provenances of this etching:
Hans von und zu Aufsess (1801-1872) was a great book lover and also a major collector of Old Master prints. He was one of the founders, in 1852, of the Germanisches Museum in Nürnberg and was that museum’s director until 1862. Mas Menge (died in 1945) was a famous violinist and also a major collector of Old Master prints and drawings.
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Singers
By Adriaen van Ostade
Located in Chicago, IL
The Singers (4th State), 1667
Etching printed with tone
240 x 190 mm.; 9 1/2 x 7 1/2 inches
Provenance:
W. Benoni White (Lugt 2592)
Karl Herweg (not in Lugt)
References:
Godefroy 19 IV/VII
Hollstein 19 IV/VII
Pelletier, Georgia Museum of Art, 1994: nos. 46 and 47
Notes:
A very fine impression of the rare 4th state (of seven) of this major Van Ostade.
Godefroy illustrates differences between this 4th state and the following 5th state. In the latter state, there are several “escaped lines”, going obliquely from left to right, directly above the central post. These lines are not visible in the 4th state.
Ostade was one of the most important of the printmakers within the Rembrandt circle. His prints, avoiding religious subjects, depicted beggars, peasants and artisans. Combining great artistic sensitivity with thorough mastery of the medium of etching, Ostade etchings present a unique artistic panorama of life in seventeenth-century Holland.
Pelletier (S. William Pelletier, Adrian Van Ostade...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
The Hunchbacked Fiddler (3rd State)
By Adriaen van Ostade
Located in Chicago, IL
The Hunchbacked Fiddler (3rd State), 1654
Etching
266 x 113 mm.; 6 1/2 x 4 7/16 inches
Watermark:
Fleur-de-lys in a Crowned Shield
References:
Godefroy 44 III/VI
Hollstein 44 III/VI
Pelletier, Adrian van Ostade...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Bearded Man with Shadowed Face, Wearing a Scarf and a Plumed Hat, (3rd state)
By Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Located in Chicago, IL
Bearded Man with Shadowed Face, Wearing a Scarf and a Plumed Hat, (3rd state), 1645-50
Etching on laid paper
152 x 184 mm.; 6 x 7 1/4 inches
References:
Bellini 45
Bartsch 52
Note...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Laid Paper, Etching
L'Armoire (2nd State)
By Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in Chicago, IL
The Armoire
Etching
340 x 469 mm.; 13 3/8 x 18 1/8 inches
Reference:
Inventaire 18e siècle 9: 289-90, No. 22
Wildenstein 1956, cat. No. 23, State II/IV
Regency to Empire, 1...
Category
18th Century Rococo Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Christ and the Little Saint John Playing with the Lamb (2nd State)
By Christoffel Jegher
Located in Chicago, IL
Woodcut after Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - 1640 Antwerp)
337 x 451 mm.; 13 1/4 x 17 3/4 inches
Provenance:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Duplicate stamp on verso...
Category
17th Century Baroque Figurative Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Bellos Consejos (Wonderful Advice)
By Francisco Goya
Located in Chicago, IL
An impression from the 1st edition published in 1799, the only edition published during Goya's lifetime.
References: Los Caprichos Plate 15; Delteil 52; Harris 50 III.1
Prado ...
Category
18th Century and Earlier Old Masters Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
Femme au Lys (Woman with Lily)
By Paul Guiramand
Located in Chicago, IL
This lithograph comes from an edition of 110, it is signed and numbered.
Paul Guiramand, painter, sculptor and lithographer, was born in 1926 in Saint-Quentin in northern France. I...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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*Signed by Burghers in the plate (printed signature) lower left
Year: 1680
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