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Ca. 135:145 mm. Strichätzung. Montiert in Passpartout-Sammelmappe (ca. 240:320 mm). Bukolische Szene mit zwei Schafen und einer Ziege neben einem Zaun sowie einem Hirten in Rückenansicht im Hintergrund. Signiert "K DU J f". - Leicht braunfleckig und knittrig. Mit Stempel der "Graphischen Sammlung" von Georg Denzel (1873-1959) unter Sammlungsnr. "2515 Nr. 9" aufgenommen.
Seidendruck auf Papier aufgezogen. 167:247 mm. Verso der Sammlungsstempel "F.G.M." sowie eine handschriftliche Paraphe.
Ca. 237:160 mm. Radierung mit gest. Nummer "3". Montiert auf Trägerpapier (480:320 mm). Ein altes Pferd und ein totes Pferd, im Hintergrund nähert sich eine Hyäne, signiert "Paulus Potter f". - Mit Stempel der "Graphischen Sammlung" von Georg Denzel (1873-1959), unter Sammlungsnr. "3078 Nr. G" aufgenommen. Zudem verso mit Sammlungsstempel "G + W D" des Prof. Wilhelm Denzel. - Leicht braunfleckig.
Ca. 280:225 mm. Kupferstich. Mmit gest. Seitenzahl "Pag. 20". Montiert auf Trägerpapier (480:320 mm). Zu der Textstelle aus "Reineke Fuchs": "Wie Henning, der Hahn, höchst betrübt vor den König kommt, über Reineke klagt und die Missetat desselben beweist [...]" (nach Soltau I, 4, 1-48; vgl. Goethe I, 181). - Ramberg radierte die Illustrationen für "Reineke Fuchs" selbst nach seinen großformatigen Federzeichnungen und veröffentlichte sie als eigenständiges Werk im Selbstverlag "Reineke Fuchs. In 30 Blättern gezeichnet und radirt" (Hannover 1826). - Etwas stockfleckig, verso eine kleine Stelle mit Papier hinterlegt. Mit Stempel der "Graphischen Sammlung" von Georg Denzel (1873-1959), unter Sammlungsnr. "2351 Nr. O" aufgenommen.
Ca. 107:80 mm. Radierung. Montiert auf Trägerpapier (480:320 mm). Bukolische Szene mit einem liegenden Esel, einem stehenden Esel und einem weiteren Esel, dessen Kopf seitlich in das Bild ragt; im Hintergrund ein lagernder Hirte. Die Platte gestochen von einem Mitglied der Künstlerfamilie Audran in Paris, signiert "Herman Swanevelt fecit". - Leicht braunfleckig, mit Lochspur alter Heftung. Mit Stempel der "Graphischen Sammlung" von Georg Denzel (1873-1959) unter Sammlungsnr. "2802 Nr. G" aufgenommen. Zudem verso mit Papiermarke und Sammlungsstempel "G + W D" des Prof. Wilhelm Denzel.
Ca. 379:288 mm. Kupferstich. Mit gest. Untertitel "t'Amsterdam gedruckt Frederick de Widt, voor aan inde Calverstraet bi den Dam, Inde Witte Pas-Caarts". Montiert auf Trägerpapier (480:320 mm). Szene in einem Stall mit zwei Pferden und einem Stallburschen, der ein drittes Pferd sattelt. Nach dem Gemälde "Zwei Pferde im Stall" von Pieter de Laer (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung, Alte Pinakothek München). Wie dem Untertitel zu entnehmen, wurde es von dem Kartographen Frederik de Wit (1629-1706) gedruckt. - Mit Stempel der "Graphischen Sammlung" von Georg Denzel (1873-1959), unter Sammlungsnr. "3214 Nr. 4" aufgenommen. Zudem verso mit Sammlungsstempel "G + W D" des Prof. Wilhelm Denzel.
Two coloured engravings, ca. 195 x 135 and 205 x 120 mm (neatline) on 4to and oblong 4to. Copperprint engraving and gouache on paper. With gouached border. Charming views of the famous monuments, bearing testimony to the continuous interest in the "Torre pendente di Pisa" that is shown in both prints. The engraver Ranieri Grassi is exclusively known for his vedutas of Pisa, the city's monuments, and their interiors. - The view of the Leaning Tower has an insignificant pinch fold affecting the print and a more extensive edge tear. Three edges bent.
Kl.-Folio (280:220 mm). Album mit zus. 32 Zeichnungen auf 27 Bll. Die Zeichnungen im Postkartenformat (90:120 mm) teilweise in Blei aquarelliert und teilweise mit Tusche laviert, mit Motiven meist aus den Niederlanden, Flandern und Frankreich, zumeist monogr. "ES", jeweils flächig montiert und mit Goldlinien gerahmt. Lederband der Zeit mit goldgepr. Deckeltitel "Reise Erinnerungen 1887", gepr. Rücken und dreiseitigem Goldschnitt; Vorsatzpapiere aus goldbedrucktem Karton mit feinem ornamentalen Muster. 1 Messingschließe. Die Zeichnungen, ausgeführt von einem geübten Zeichner und jeweils beschriftet und datiert, dokumentieren die Stationen einer Reise: Nijmegen, Kampen, Enkhuizen, Ursem bei Alkmaar, Rotterdam, Utrecht, Antwerpen, Brügge, Brüssel, Mecheln, Tournai, Laon, Soissons, Paris, Rouen, Versailles, Chinon, Fontainebleau, Sully sur Loire und Moulins. - Der Künstler mit dem verschlungenen, wohl als "ES" zu lesenden Monogramm konnte nicht ermittelt werden; vermutlich trug er den Nachnamen Schmidt: Darauf deuten drei beiliegende Photokopien, die wohl die Rückseiten von drei der Zeichnungen zeigen, die als Postkarten an einen Carl Schmidt in Berlin versandt wurden. - Bis auf eine Bleistiftzeichnung mit Allgäuer Gebirgslandschaft, bezeichnet und datiert "Mädelegabel, 15. 8. [18]86", entstanden alle Zeichnungen auf der Reise durch die Niederlande, durch Flandern und Fankreich. Der Spruch "Wie hat das Gott so schön erdacht, dass er den Wanderburschen schafft" unter der Zeichnung von Kampen zu Beginn der Reise deutet darauf hin, dass die Reise zu Fuß angetreten wurde. - Der Zeichner versteht sich meisterhaft auf die minutiöse Wiedergabe von Stadtansichten und historischen Gebäuden; oft beleben treffend skizzierte Staffagefiguren den Vordergrund, oder die Landschaft ist in zarten Aquarellfarben angedeutet. Ein Selbstportrait zeigt den Künstler auf einem kleinen Schemel hockend, mit Zylinder auf dem Kopf, in der Pariser Avenue de Montaigne; ein anderes Selbstportrait, durch einen Spiegel in der Decke gesehen, entstand im Schloss von Fontainebleau. - Einband etwas berieben. Einige Zeichnungen mit Poststempel oder Abklatschspuren eines Poststempels. Innengelenke gebrochen, gering fleckig, Trägerkartons leicht gebräunt.
33 x 23 cm (sheet size). Gouache on paper. Heightened in gold and silver. Charming, if amateurish, anonymous representation of Napoleon Bonaparte as Consul, based on reproductions of an original portrait by the general and military painter Louis Albert Guislain Bacler d'Albe (1761-1824). The official engraved version of d'Albe's portrait by Michelangelo Mercoli the younger circulated widely in Europe and was frequently reproduced and varied. In the gouached copy at hand, Napoleon's typical bicorne hat was added, either based on the concrete model or as an original idea of the copyist. This artistically rather unhappy addition is an interesting reminder of the immediate iconicity of Napoleon's hat. The inscription "N. Bonaparte P.er Consul de la République Française" corresponds exactly to Mercoli's print. - Well preserved. With minor tears and browning to the margins.
Large 4to (180 x 255 mm). 24 watercolours on 22 ff. With several additional pencil sketches. Original black half leather with green cloth covers and pen holder. Impressive album of vibrant watercolours documenting the extensive Ceylonese journey of a female British artist, Frances de la Poer. The volume opens with a depiction of a "Madras Conjurer" in Kandy, performing the "great mango trick" with two cobras, wherein the performer gives the illusion of the sudden germination and growth of a mango tree (drawn from life and dated Kandy, 31 Dec. 1895). The second drawing shows a crowd gathered before a Buddhist temple in Kandy. - Setting out from Kandy, the artist explored the countryside, drawing landscapes in Yattawatta, the tea harvest on Coolbawn estate in Navalapitiya, a pandal in Bandarawala, the surroundings of Haldummulla, a verandah in Pelmadulla, two views of Adam's Peak, men riding elephants in Ratnapura, the famous Elephant Rock (Ethagala) of Kurunegala, and four impressions from the beaches of Bentota. The final watercolour in the album is a beautiful impression of a beach sunset, dated 18 February 1896. - Frances de la Poer (ca. 1850-1925) was the youngest daughter of the Irish nobleman John William de la Poer (1816-51). In 1881 she married Thomas William Gaston Monsell, 2nd Baron Emly, son of the liberal politician William Monsell. - Spine professionally restored; generally well preserved. Album bought from Roberson & Co., London, with his ticket to front pastedown.
325 x 280 mm. Ink and wash on drawing cardboard. Framed and glazed. This beautiful study, most likely for a lithograph, can be attributed to Carle Vernet, the youngest son of the painter Claude-Joseph Vernet. The monumental central motif of an Arabian cavalier on a dark Arabian stallion is elaborately executed, whereas the backdrop of a tent and a battle scene remain sketchy. - A passionate horseman himself, Carle Vernet is most famous for his cavalry scenes and other equestrian motifs. - Trimmed on the upper margin. Abrasions throughout, mostly affecting the background.
Folio (270 x 387 mm). (6), 92, (2) pp. With 2 plates of engraved music and 8 (including frontispiece) coloured aquatints by or after Bonatti, Castellini, Gallina, and Pallagi. Contemporary ruby-red morocco, elaborately gilt with gilt inner dentelle and giltstamped arms to both covers. Green moirée silk endpapers. Green silk divider. Only edition. Of all of Gironi's publications, all of which are of a similar nature, the present work on Greek music is one of the rarest, published in only 30 copies and printed on strong, very wide-margined wove paper. This is the dedication copy for Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria and Duchess of Parma (1791-1847), the wife of Napoleon and daughter of Francis I (1768-1835), first Emperor of Austria, with a printed dedication dated May 1825 and sumptuously bound with the Austrian arms on both covers. - "Cette dissertation n'étant point destinée au commerce, il n'en a été tiré que trente exemplaires, et l'auteur en a fait hommage à une dame à l'occasion de son mariage. Les gravures sont d'après les dessins de peintres célèbres" (Brunet). - The eight hand-coloured aquatints, showing costumes and musical instruments, are blindstamped with Giulio Ferrario's monogram ("Il costume antico e moderno"). An entirely complete copy, showing only some slight spotting and some foxing to margins. Old catalogue description pasted to lower free endpaper. Traces of professional restorations to spine and hinges. Latterly in the collection of the legendary French maître coiffeur Louis Alexandre Raimon (1922-2008), hairdresser to film stars and aristocracy, with his ownership stamp to first free endpaper ("Collection Alexandre de Paris"). Brunet II, 1615. Graesse III, 89. OCLC 13996001.
Kolorierte Lithographie auf Papier. 605 x 800 mm. Sehr seltene Monumentallithographie von Joseph Lanzedelli dem Jüngeren nach einem Entwurf von Adam Brenner, gedruckt bei B. Greiffenstein für J. Sedlaczek in Wien. Das Plakat zeigt eine Anbetung Jesu Christi als Himmelskönig auf textlicher Basis des "Te Deum Laudamus". Die irdische Sphäre ist zentral durch den schreibenden Heiligen Ambrosius von Mailand repräsentiert, dem der berühmte Hymnus zugeschrieben wird. Mehrere Textzitate mit Strophenangabe der deutschen Nachdichtung des Te Deums von Ignaz Franz sind illustriert, darunter die Anbetung der Cherubim. Erst durch die Bildunterschrift wird der Zusammenhang mit der Hochzeit des Kaiserpaares hergestellt: "Zur Erinnerung an die Oesterreichs Völker beglückende Vermählung und glorreiche Regierung Sr. kais. königl. Apostolischen Majestät unsers allgeliebten und allergnädigsten Kaisers Franz Joseph I., mit Ihrer königl. Hoheit der durchlauchtigsten Prinzessin Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie, Herzogin in Bayern". Die Betonung des Heiligen Ambrosius von Mailand als Schutzpatron des österreichischen Kaisertums hatte in der angespannten Lage vor dem zweiten italienischen Unabhängigkeitskrieg (1859) auch eine politische Dimension. - Der Wiener Kaufmannssohn Adam Brenner (1800-91) studierte unter Leopold Kupelwieser und Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller an der Akademie der bildenden Künste. Er trat sowohl in der Historienmalerei als auch in den niedrigeren Gattungen als begabter akademischer Maler hervor. - Mehrere geklebte Einrisse sowie fachgerechte Ergänzungen im Randbereich. Leicht fleckig und gebräunt.
Folio (320 x 250 mm). 150 leaves with 140 drawings. Various media: felt-tip marker, India ink, pen, graphite, coloured pencil, gouache, etc. Contemporary leatherette album, upper cover giltstamped "Livre d'Or", covers reinforced with metal applications. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A splendid album of original artwork by some of the foremost artists of the Franco-Belgian comics scene active during the early 1990s. The contributions, some of which are located and dated, would seem to have been collected at various comics fairs or events. Virtually all are inscribed to "Jean-Michel", also variously spelt "Yann Mikael" or similarly, suggesting - as do the frequent maritime subjects - that the collector hailed from Brittany, probably from Saint-Malo, where numerous entries were acquired. - Among the still-active luminaries of the medium's Golden Age are Morris (with a portrait of Lucky Luke) and Tabary (who draws Calife Haroun el Poussah, known in English as Haroun El Plassid). Jidéhem draws Gaston (on which strip he long collaborated with Franquin), and Albert Weinberg draws his character Dan Cooper. Marcel Uderzo, Albert's younger brother and sometime collaborator on the original Asterix albums, draws his own character Mathias. Others have taken over the torch from famous predecessors: Al Coutelis draws a spoof of Tanguy and Laverdure, a famous strip he inherited from Albert Uderzo; Jean-Claude Fournier draws Spirou, which character Franquin handed over to him as early as 1970. A portrait in fineliner and broad felt-tip is contributed by André Juillard, who would later take over Edgar P. Jacobs's Blake and Mortimer - a series in which Didier Convard, seen in another entry, would also have a hand, in collaboration with Juillard. Jacobs himself is obliquely present in the portrait of his villain Olrik, drawn by an unidentified contributor, while Jean-Charles Kraehn represents Saint-Malo's very own "bande dessinée" scene. - A few double-page spreads (21, 114). Occasional light offsetting to opposite page or bleeding to next, especially from felt-tip drawings, but on the whole perfectly preserved. A few blank pages serve as protective tissue guards. A complete list of contributors, all but a dozen identified, is available upon request.
Large 4to (180 x 255 mm). 26 watercolours on 25 ff. With several additional pencil sketches. Original black half leather with green cloth covers and pen holder. Impressive album of vibrant watercolours documenting an extensive journey from Shanghai to Sri Lanka via Hong Kong made by a female British artist, Frances de la Poer. The volume opens with a full-page depiction of a traditional Chinese lotus shoe captioned "The Brides shoe Shanghai Nov 30th 95", decorated with a sketch of two women in festive dress beneath a tree. The artist apparently had attended a wedding in Shanghai, as she also portrayed "The brides sisters" on the verso of the same leaf underneath a panorama of the Yangtze river crowded with junks. This latter watercolour is stated to have been drawn on deck of the Canadian ocean liner "RMS Empress of Japan", bound for Hong Kong. On 3 December, Frances de la Poer captured in an atmospheric watercolour the Lei Yue Mun channel ("Lymoon pass") that separates Kowloon and Hong Kong Island, followed by another river scene showing clothes drying on the shore of the Pearl River. The album continues with a portrait of two Chinese men in traditional attire and two more landscapes of the Pearl River (here captioned "Canton River") and its mountainous surroundings. On 13 December the artist had already reached Malaysia, as evidenced by an unfinished watercolour depicting a group of people with cattle. The journey continued on the German "Reichspostdampfer Preussen", documented in the caption of a stunning landscape of the Sumatran coastline from 16 December. - After a longer interruption, the Ceylonese section of the album starts with an impressive depiction of a lake near Bandarawela, dated 26 Jan. 1896. The artist explored the south of the island, painting a landscape in Badulla, a "lace seller" in Colombo, a river scene near a British fort, a young boy, a Buddhist stupa, acrobats in Yatawatta, huts in a village and a woman in Kandy province, a Tamil coolie working with tea and other labourers, but also a scorpion and, in pencil, a spider and lizards. Several drawings are also annotated in Sinhalese. A series of larger pencil drawings is followed by two final watercolours: a beautiful depiction of Galle Lighthouse, the oldest lighthouse on the island, and a charming scene on deck of the British ocean liner "RMS Ormuz", dated 22 February. - Frances de la Poer (ca. 1850-1925) was the youngest daughter of the Irish nobleman John William de la Poer (1816-51). In 1881 she married Thomas William Gaston Monsell, 2nd Baron Emly, son of the liberal politician William Monsell. - Spine professionally restored. Two leaves apparently excised, but generally well preserved.
Folio (280 x 440 mm). 2 parts in one volume. 20, 24, (2) pp.; 17, (1), 20, (2) pp. With engraved sanguine frontispiece, engraved sanguine title-page, engraved vignette in the text, and 127 hand-coloured engraved plates. Modern full calf, bound to style, in custom slipcase. First edition of Ridingers' last great suite of plates, posthumously completed and edited by his sons Johann Jakob and Martin Elias Ridinger. One of only two series of engravings that Ridinger published with coloured plates; very rarely encountered complete, as in the present specimen. - As always, part I has only a sanguine frontispiece with Ridinger's medallion portrait but no title proper. This is followed by a preface in French and German (with a biography of the artist); the title of the work is not announced until page 9 of the German introduction. Part II has a separate engraved title-page, also printed in sanguine. - Occasional light fingerstaining to the lower margins of some plates, otherwise very clean. Some occasional light foxing to text leaves. Spine a little sunned, front hinge professionally restored. From the collection of the Hessian chemist Waldemar Schwalbe (1882-1943) with his pretty silhouette bookplate, dated 1937. Nissen 3408. Thienemann/Schwarz 974-1102.
168 x 107 mm. Pen and brown ink, brown and black wash on paper. Some foxing. Charming caricature by the Venetian master depicting a liveried gentleman with a tricorne, épée and a walking stick in profile, accentuating the figure's grotesque pointed nose and chin. The drawing can be attributed to Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, the oldest son and student of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. - The drawing is very similar to the caricature of a gentleman with walking stick holding and tricorne that is held at the MET (Inv.: 37.165.68).
21,5 x 16,5 cm (neatline). Etching on paper. With traces of former mounting. Rare copy of this charming etching depicting a dog, probably a terrier, in a domestic setting with carpet, water-pipe, a couch, and a baroque chair. Ferdinand II of Portugal was a talented draughtsman and etcher and a lifelong benefactor of the arts, which earned him the nickname "Rei Artista". Among his favorite motifs were animals and peasants. The etching at hand is indicative of Ferdinand's eclectic taste, combining orientalist and historistic influences. The most famous example of this inclination is the Pena Palace built on his commission between 1842 and 1854. - In 1836 the future Queen Victoria started an album of her cousin's etchings that would be continued until 1850, ultimatively assembling 54 of Ferdinand's works. In her journal entry of 24 March 1836, Princess Victoria describes how she "copied some of Ferdinand's drawings". - Diffuse foxing. With a minor tear to the upper right corner (not affecting the etching). An old Italian caption in ink erroneously describes the piece as a pen drawing.
1 S. Mit einem Kupferstich (ca. 12 x 17 cm). 4to. Hübsches Neujahrsblatt eines Laternenwächters. Der Kupferstich zeigt wohl Christoph Weiß in Ausübung seiner Tätigkeit beim Nachfüllen von städtischen Laternen mit frischem Talg (Klauenfett). Darunter ein Neujahrsgedicht in zwei Spalten: "Heunte kommen grosse Hauffen | Für die Thüren hergelauffen | Wünschen uns ein Neues Jahr. | Da das Fenster kaum geschlossen, | Und ein Augenblick verflossen, | Meldt sich schon ein neue Schaar. | Hat der Thorner sich verschlichen, | Kommt der Wächter angestrichen | Nebst den Hörnleins-Wächter her. | Schlott- und Brunnen-Feger wollen | Kommen auch Neu Jahr zu holen | Weil es ist ein alte Mähr. | Ballenbinder und Feldwebel | Und bey theils auch die Constäbel, | Zeigen sich nach ihren Brauch. | Auch der Pritscher mit der Trommel | Machet ein Neu Jahr Getrommel, | Ja die Haupt-Wacht find sich auch. | Solt ich nun bey solchen Sachen | Mein Aufwartung nicht auch machen, | Zum Neu Jahr was bitten aus, | Der ich hab so vieles Oele | Ein halb Jahr auf meiner Seele, | Lampen, Tacht, in meinem Hauß. | Jezund will ich auch anfangen, | Da ein Jahr ist hin gegangen | Daß ich diese Sorge trag. | Gott erhalt die werthen Männer, | Und den hoch lateinschen Gönner, | Die drauf dachten Nacht und Tag [...] Denn will ich auf meiner Leiter | Mein Amt warten treulich weiter, | Daß kein Garn nicht wird versehrt. | Mehr, ich will zu jeden Nutzen | Fleißig gehen, um zu butzen, | Holten die Laternen rein. | Ja ich will in meiner Hütten, | Sonst kein Tropffen Oel verschütten | Als nur zum Salat allein [...]". - Vereinzelt kleine Braunflecken; leicht knittrig.
Ca. 42 Skizzen (3 aquarelliert) und 2 Texte auf 30 Bll. Original marmorierter Pappeinband mit Bleistifthalter. 8vo. Charmantes Skizzenbuch der jungen Herzogin mit zahlreichen Landschafts- und Architekturzeichnungen, Darstellungen von Haustieren sowie Karikaturen und Porträts besonders ihrer Schwestern. Neben den Zeichnungen umfasst das Büchlein ein amüsantes Gedicht ("In Lautenbach habe ich mein Strumpf verloren / Und ohne Strumpf geh ich nicht heim [...]"), eine Art Tagebucheintrag und den Entwurf für eine Glückwunschkarte mit Namenszug "Elisabeth" zum Namenstag ihres jüngeren Bruders Carl Theodor, genannt Gackel. - Das Skizzenbuch erlaubt einen seltenen, oft humorvollen Einblick in Elisabeths Kindheit in Possenhofen. Ihre Liebe zur Natur wird besonders durch die geschickten Skizzen von Bäumen verdeutlicht, die sie an verschiedenen Orten in Bayern anfertigte. Wie eine Sammlernotiz in Bleistift verdeutlicht, stammt das Skizzenbuch aus dem Nachlass der Gräfin Camilla von Otting, die als Erzieherin im herzöglichen Haushalt wirkte: "Kindliches Zeichenbuch der späteren Kaiserin Elisabeth v Oesterreich Herzogin in Bayern stammt aus dem Nachlass der Gräfin Camilla v Otting ihrer Erzieherin und Hofdame". - Einband berieben und bestoßen, Vorderdeckel mit Fehlstellen im Marmorpapier. Einige Bll. lose. Teils leicht fleckig und vereinzelte Einrisse. Durchgehend gebräunt.
Royal folio (410 x 605 mm). 2 ff. of text and 25 collotype plates after drawings on matte art paper (7 with colours), each tipped onto thin cream card with a mount as issued. Storedin original half cloth portfolio with Klimt's gilt-printed signature on the upper cover. Number 326 of only 500 numbered and 10 deluxe copies. The twenty-five monochrome and coloured drawings show women in mainly erotic scenes. All were from the collection of the Austrian industrialist August Lederer and his wife Serena (a relative of the U.S. journalist Joseph Pulitzer), who together spent a fortune on compiling the most important Klimt collection of their age. Forcibly expropriated by the National Socialists in 1938, a significant part of the trove was stored at Immendorf Castle in Lower Austria, where it appears to have perished in a fire in May 1945. - From the collection of the Swedish painter and photographer Johan Theodor Jönsson with two stamps of his archive foundation. Several mounts a little waterstained or dust-soiled, but generally in excellent condition. For the history of the Lederer family and their collection see 1) Tina Marie Storkovich, Verbrannte Klimtbilder: Das Puzzle von Immendorf. In: "Die Presse", Print-Ausgabe, 19 Dec. 2015, Spectrum, p. III. 2) Michael Wladika, Egon Schiele, "Die Mutter und die Tochter" 1913. Dossier der Leopold Museum-Privatstiftung zu LM Inv. Nr. 2356.
Small folio (287 x 377 mm). (6), 134, (24) pp. With 31 leaves plates (sugar aquatints, etchings and drypoints). In unbound sheets as issued, stored in publisher's original cardboard covers, portfolio and slipcase (some slight wear to the latter). Two unique and wholly original brush drawings, adorning a signed and inscribed first edition of this famous suite by Picasso, in perfect condition. - Limited edition of 226 copies: this is number 155, one of 135 on Vidalon vélin. This copy was presented by Picasso to his friend, the painter André Marchand (1907-98), with an autograph inscription and two original drawings, each one full page. The two drawings are executed in Indian ink, pen and brush, heightened with black ink wash. They occupy the verso of the half-title bifolium and the first section title ("Le Cheval"). The first drawing shows a tomato plant in a pot, probably a reference to the still lifes for which Marchand was known. The second presents two different figures of a horse: in the upper half of the sheet, a white horse, seen in profile; in the lower half, a powerful horse's head, also in profile, against a stark dark background. Both are dated by the artist "7 August 44"; the first drawing also bears in the lower right-hand corner the signed dedication: "Pour André Marchand / Picasso". - In 1936 Ambroise Vollard commissioned illustrations by Picasso for the comte de Buffon’s 18th century encyclopedia, "Histoire naturelle". The book was published in 1942 with Picasso’s 31 prints. The delightful images of the animal kingdom, rendered with exquisite technique, must have surely brought joy to those who viewed it during the dark days of the war. Printed in a relatively small edition of 226, several copies went to friends with unique drawings such as these. - Includes an additional print of the "Mère poule" plate. Provenance: André Marchand; Jean A. Bonna (his bookplate to the portfolio's pastedown). With a certificate from Picasso's daughter Maya, dated 10 October 2002. S. Goeppert, Picasso (1983), p. 104-107. The Artist and the Book, 231. OCLC 78845813.
166 x 108 mm. Pen and brown ink, brown wash on paper. Minimal foxing. Charming caricature by the Venetian master depicting a liveried gentleman with épée and tricorne in profile, accentuating the figure's implausibly hollow back, grotesquely hooked nose, and impressive prognathism. The drawing can be attributed to Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, the oldest son and student of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. - The drawing is very similar to the caricature of a gentleman with walking stick and tricorne that is held at the MET (Inv.: 37.165.68).
Woodcut on paper. An evocative court scene in an ornamental woodcut border, title and impressum in Bengali within a cartouche situated at bottom centre. The only known copy of a Battala woodcut showing a lively scene at the court of an Indian Raja, with the Raja and eminent courtiers, European colonial officers, musicians, dancers, and even dogs present. This is a very rare example of a Battala woodcut print, which were produced in the early to mid 19th century in the Battala neighbourhood of Calcutta (Kolkota). These prints showed often somewhat crude but evocative religious or secular illustrations, produced for people of the lower economic classes who could not afford the watercolours that inspired these woodcuts. An estimated number of only 100 to 200 prints of these Battala woodcuts have survived, as they were printed on cheap, thin, low quality paper stock. - During the early 19th century, there existed in Kolkata a substantial industry of woodcut printing. The artists, publishers and printers were active in the Battala neighbourhood, in the northern part of the city, after which the surviving woodcut prints are named. Large, single-leaf woodcuts - like the present example - were produced as cheaper versions of the already inexpensive watercolours called patas, which were in turn inspired by illustrated Mughal manuscripts. The patas were sold from stalls in the southern part of Kolkata, near the Kalighat Kali Temple, a renowned Hindu temple that is also regarded as one of the 51 Shakti Peethas of India. It was then, and still remains, an important pilgrimage destination; the patas, and later also the woodcut prints, were sold to the pilgrims as souvenirs. As the Battala woodcuts were inspired by and based on these patas, it is little surprise that one of the most famous Battala woodcuts is that of the Hindu goddess Kali, of ultimate power, time, destruction and change. While most Battala prints feature religious illustrations, other specimens show past and contemporary celebrities, mansions of the rich, fairs and festivals, and other secular themes, including the Raja's court, as in the present example. - The existence of the Battala prints, alongside the pata watercolours, was short-lived: they emerged and became popular in the early 19th century and by the end of the century had almost completely disappeared due to the arrival of lithography, a simpler, less labour-intensive process that was capable of producing cheaper prints, even in colour. - Condition: paper somewhat worn, mainly along the lower margin, slightly affecting the border and lower right corner of the illustration. The top and lower margins have been slightly reinforced on the reverse. Overall in good condition. One of a very small number of surviving Battala woodcuts, the only known example to show the Raja's court. F. Hirsch, "A Rare Kali Woodcut From the Era of the Battala Printers", Art in Print 6.3 (Sept.-Oct. 2016), pp. 24-28.
Aquatint etching on paper (leaf ca. 290 x 380 mm; plate 270 x 350 mm; illustration 245 x 315 mm). A domestic scene of a couple fighting at a table, a shrouded dark figure watching from the background. Captioned "Vexation and Strife" and signed "Calcutta J. M. del. et sculp. 1797". Printed on laid paper with the bend watermark of J. Whatman (Heawood 104). Very rare aquatint and etching by James Moffat, with a rare Calcutta imprint. The subject of the print is a subtle caricature of domestic strife over the intoxication of a (supposedly) British colonial. The only other known copy is described as follows by Yale's Lewis Warpole Library catalogue: "In the center of the image a woman, dressed in a short shift, angrily pulls a bottle from the hand of a drunken man. The man sits at an oval drop-leaf table with his right fist raised and a cigar hanging from his mouth as smoke billows around his head. He holds onto a bottle with his left hand, a glass and pile of cigars at his elbow. The woman standing over the table on the left angrily points with her left hand to a clock on the wall which shows the time as 5:05. In the background on the left, a dark-faced, cloaked figure stands before the curtained doorway on the left; the double doors on the right are shut. Also on the table is a lit candle in a glass globe; an overturned pitcher pours onto the floor in the foreground". - James Moffat (1775-1815) was a Scottish engraver who worked in India. He arrived in Calcutta in 1789, joining the "Calcutta Gazette" in 1797. Moffat is mainly known for his topographical views of India, but he also produced several satirical prints such as the present specimen. He "supplemented his income by producing satires of Anglo-Indians (British colonials who spent time in India) at a time when these were becoming increasingly popular" (Smylitopoulos, p. 12). Most of these satirical scenes were sent by the amateur artist to London to be engraved and published, but the present example with its Calcutta imprint in the signature proves the exception to this rule. - Moffat's topographical views of cities, buildings, rivers and other landscape features are rare, and his satirical domestic scenes are even rarer. The only other copy that can be traced in institutional possession that that in the Lewis Warpole Library at Yale University, and it almost never appears in the trade, with only two records in historical auction results (one in 1933 and one in 2020, possibly the present copy). - Two small tears, one in the top margin and the other in the bottom, neither affecting the illustration. Very slightly stained in the margins. Overall in very good condition. OCLC 701812946 (a single copy, at Yale). For Moffat's career cf. H. de Almeida & George H. Gilpin, Indian Renaissance: British Romantic Art and the Prospect of India (2005) pp. 249f.; C. Smylitopoulos, "Portrait of a Nabob: Graphic Satire, Portraiture, and the Anglo-Indian in the Late Eighteenth Century", in: RACAR 37.1 (2012), pp. 10-25.