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October, 24 2024October, 24 2024

New catalogue, The Martinez D. gallery

The Martinez D. gallery invites you to discover its new catalogue at the gallery and online in PDF format: catalogue Galerie Martinez D. François Séraphin DELPECH (published by) Orléans 1778 † 1825 Poster from the Chambre Syndicale des Editeurs et Marchands d’estampes et Dessins Anciens et Modernes. A modest gift, a sumptuous gift. An engraving, an antique or a modern drawing will be a pleasant and lasting gift. Poster illustrated after a lithograph by Henry Monnier (Paris 1799 † 1877): “A print dealer’s shop a century ago”. Lucas CRANACH the younger Wittemberg 1515 † Weimar 1586 [Portrait...

October, 24 2024October, 24 2024

By Nathalie Béreau

Grosvenor Prints, Catalogue n°140

Grosvenor Prints is pleased to present our October Offers: Catalogue 140! Highlights include: Cover: [Caroline of Brunswick] Her Royal Highness Caroline Princess of Wales. Born 17.th May 1768 _ Married to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on Wednesday Evening 8.th April, 1795. Published 25th March 1795, by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London. Rare mezzotint. 350 x 255mm (13¾ x 10″). Trimmed to plate at bottom, laid on album page. Small margins on 3 sides. Full-length portrait of Caroline of Brunswick, wearing plumed head-dress and full court dress decorated with large ribbons and tasselled bows, in...

September, 20 2024September, 20 2024

By Nathalie Béreau

Catalogue n°139, Grosvenor Prints

Grosvenor Prints is pleased to present our August Acquisitions: Catalogue 139! Highlights include: Cover: In His Majesty’s Collection. From the Original Drawing by Annibale Carracci. Engraved by F. Bartolozzi RA Historical Engraver to His Majesty. Publish’d as the Act directs April 11 1796 by I. Chamberlaine. Stipple in sanguine, sheet 430 x 325mm (17 x 12¾”). Trimmed to plate. A very fine image showing head of a young monk, possibly Saint Francis of Assisi. De Vesme 2106. [Réf: 63782] £140.00 Plan General des Chateaux, Parc et Jardins de Chantilly. Situé dans le Isle de France, à neuf lieues de Paris...

September, 20 2024September, 20 2024

By Nathalie Béreau

New catalogue, Galerie Martinez D.

Upcoming catalog”HISTORIA” Below is a link to the PDF of the web catalog: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0484/9339/6131/files/Catalogue_Historia_compressed.pdf?v=1722422003 Robin DE MONTIGNY French engraver and publisher, active in the 2nd half of the 18th century. 142 – Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen ( consort) of France and Navarre. circa.1778. Roulette and gouache highlights. H291(355)xL226(299)mm. All margins untrimmed. One tear at left edge. Minor stains. De Vinck n°324. Duplessis, Iconography of Queen Marie-Antoinette, Paris, Quantin, n°320. Counterpart to the equestrian portrait of Louis XVI by the same artist (De Vinck n°323). Fine proof on watermarked laid paper in contemporary colors, from the 1st state (of 2),...

New catalogue, Helmut H. Rumbler gallery

September, 20 2024September, 20 2024

By Nathalie Béreau

New catalogue, Helmut H. Rumbler gallery

Catalogue n°59 from Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler “SAMMLERFREUDEN / COLLECTOR’S DELIGHT” The new catalog 59 of Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, published at the beginning of September as usual in printed form, is also available online on the gallery’s website www.helmutrumbler.com. Under the title SAMMLERFREUDEN / COLLECTOR’S DELIGHT, the gallery offers an exquisite selection of 60 items of old master prints from Aldegrever to Zanetti. CONTE ANTONIO MARIA ZANETTI Saint Sebastian. 1723 After F. Parmigianino Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from four blocks. 17.2 x 10.0 cm Bartsch XII, p. 169, no. 21 REMBRANDT HARMENSZOON VAN RIJN Abraham Entertaining the Angels. 1656 Etching. 15.9...

July, 26 2024September, 19 2024

By Nathalie Béreau

Catalogue n°138, Grosvenor Prints

Grosvenor Prints is pleased to present our summer selection: Catalogue 138! Cover: [George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Giuseppe Tartini, Johann Joachim Quantz, Christoph Gluck and Niccolò Jommelli.] [n.d., c.1780.] Extremely fine & rare mezzotint. Sheet 240 x 245mm (9½ x 9¾”). Framed loosely. Trimmed into image, losing all inscriptions, laid on card. A satirical portrait, with Tartini playing the violin, Quanz the flute and Gluck plating the harpsicord. The others sing. The figures are identified from a German engraved version of the scene in the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, Foundling Museum, Accession no 5559. [Ref: 62576] £1,350.00 S.t James’s...

May, 22 2023May, 22 2023

By Nathalie Béreau

Grosvenor Prints, new catalogue n°127

On the occasion of the coronation of Charles III, Grosvenor Prints is pleased to present its new selection of references: its catalog number 127: God save the King! Highlights include: [George IV] The King seated in St Edward’s Chair Crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury. 19.th July 1821. Figures by J. Stephanoff. Architecture by Aug.s Pugin. F.C. Lewis, Sculpsit. [London Published as the Act directs Jan.y 1824 by Sir George Nayler, Garter.] Aquatint, printed in colours and hand finished. Sheet 420 x 560mm (16½ x 22″). Trimmed to plate, laid on card at borders. The interior of Westminster Abbey...

April, 28 2023April, 28 2023

By Nathalie Béreau

New catalogue n°126, Grosvenor Prints

Grosvenor Prints uploaded Catalogue 126 to its website! Highlights include: Cover: M.r James Gillray. From a miniature painted by himself & Engraved by Cha.s Turner.London, Published april 19 1819 by G.Humphrey, 27 S.t James’s Street.Mezzotint, plate: 300 x 395mm (12 x 15½”), with very large margins, on 19th century watermarked paper. Oval head and shoulders portrait of caricaturist and printmaker James Gillray (1757-1815). State with title in thick and thin letters, and all inscriptions engraved within border of horizontal and vertical lines surrounding image. Whitman 1907: 224.II. [Ref: 60043] £380.00 Venus. Elias Martin pinx.t J. Fried.k Martin Aculp.tPublish’d as the...

“Out of frame” by Johann Naldi and Rodolphe Trouilleux

April, 28 2023April, 28 2023

By Nathalie Béreau

“Out of frame” by Johann Naldi and Rodolphe Trouilleux

“In the course of Johann Naldi s’ encounters and research, finds and discoveries multiply. Incredible masterpieces reappeared, thought to be lost forever, and have been included in this book for the very first time. A large bather by Courbet; a sketchbook by Delacroix; a majestic horse painted by Géricault; landscapes by Constable, by Manet… Until these seventeen insanely ironic works of Incoherent Art. Works that had been lost for 140 years, and have just been declared a National Treasure by the Ministry of Culture. A beautiful and unique book, which takes you on a real treasure hunt through flea markets,...

March, 17 2023March, 21 2023

By Nathalie Béreau

Grosvenor Prints, catalogue n°123

We have the pleasure of uploading our new Reference Book Listing: Catalogue 123. Highlights include: Cover: James Gillray: A Revolution in Satire. Tim Clayton. New Haven & London: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2022. 4to (300 x 250mm, 11¾ x 9¾”), printed boards and illus. d/w; pp. viii + 400, profusely illustrated. New. A superb study of James Gillray (1756-1815), the leading satirist of his times. Tim Clayton has written several books on prints, including ‘The English Print, 1688-1802’ (1997) and ‘Bonaparte and the British: prints and propaganda in the age of Napoleon’, the catalogue of...

March, 17 2023March, 21 2023

By Nathalie Béreau

New Catalogue, The Paul Prouté Gallery

The Paul Prouté gallery invites you to discover its latest catalog n°164 dedicated to the origins of lithography in France (1804 – 1818). Online catalog is available on the gallery’s website. Visuals : Pierre-Nolasque BERGERET (Bordeaux 1782 – Paris 1863). The Dawdlers of The Rue du Coq, 1804. Lithograph enhanced with watercolor, 215 × 375 mm, margins 240 × 395 mm, edited by the lithographic printing house located at 24, rue Saint Sébastien. Provenance : Gabriel Cognacq (Lugt 538d), P. Prouté (L. 2103c). Reference : IFF ( Inventory of The BNF collections) Not defined, Bonafous-Murat 1987 n°1, Chappey 45. Jean-François...

January, 21 2023January, 31 2023

By Nathalie Béreau

Grosvenor Prints, new catalogue n°121

We have the pleasure of uploading our new Catalogue 121! Highlights include: Cover: Daughters of Sir Thomas Frankland Bar.t. Painted by J. Hoppner R.A. Portrait Painter to His Royal Higness the Prince of Wales. Engraved by W. Ward.Publish’d March 1. 1797 by W. Ward, Delancy Place, Hampstead Road.Fine mezzotint. 580 x 455mm (22¾ x 18″). Framed in a very good ‘Daniel’ type frame. Small margins. Unexamined out of frame. A portait of Marianne and Emilia Frankland in a landscape, a spaniel asleep at their feet. Amelia holds a crayon and a portfolio of sketches. They were two of the many...