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Etchings
are prints which are made by
scratching a design in a film of
resin that covers a metal plate,
usually copper. The plate is then
placed in an acid bath which eats
away at the exposed copper,
creating grooves to hold ink. In
the nineteenth century, the
technique appealed to painters
because they could draw freely
and quickly in the resin film
with a needle and were able to
produce prints without the
assistance of a professional
printer. All here are post
inclusive anywhere
Framed
items can only be sent to the US
unglazed unless a carrier is used
at buyers expense due to US
customs restrictions after 9/11
please contact if a framed
item
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Léon Augustin
LHERMITTE, (1844-1925) Les
laveuses
A great
French painter and etcher
of the late nineteenth
century, Leon L'Hermitte
was born in 1844 and was
still executing works in
the French rural tradition
at his death in 1925, 1863
Went to Paris and became a
student at the Petite Ecole
1874 Lhermitte won a
third-class medal in the Salon
for his painting The Harvest
1881 The Tavern, exhibited
in the Salon
1890 Founding member of the
Societe Nationale des
Beaux-Arts
1894 Officer of the Legion
d'honneur
Lhermitte showed artistic
talent at a young age and his
upbringing in the rural
village of Mont
Saiint-Père in Picardie
provided him with the subjects
and landscapes that would
become the staples of his
oeuvre. In 1863 left his home
for the Petit Ecole in Paris
where he studied with Horace
Lecocq de Boisbaudran. It was
in that studio that he formed
a life-long friendship with
Cazin and became acquainted
with Legros, Fantin-Latour,
and Rodin. He made his debut
at the Salon of 1864 where his
charcoal drawings revealed
that he had a profound sense
for nature. His first work,
Bords de Marne près
d'Alfort, caused a sensation.
Lhermitte soon gained a
reputation for being as
capable with oils as with
pastel and charcoal. For his
entries, he won a third prize
medal in 1874, a second prize
medal in 1880, and a Grand
Prize award at the Exposition
Universelle in 1889. One year
later, he was awarded a
Diploma of Honour at Dresden.
Lhermitte was awarded the
Legion of Honour in 1884, was
made an officer in 1894 and a
commander in 1911. He was
elected a member of the
Institute in 1905. In 1890 he
was one of the founding
members of the
Société National
des Beaux-Arts, of which he
was later elected
Vice-President.
Lhermitte was born during a
time that heralded a vast
change in the urban and rural
landscapes of France. The
country was speeding into the
modern world as urban spaces
became more dense,
industrialized, and teeming
with activity. France was
divided between a more
educated, progressive North
and a rural South of farm and
field laborers. People rarely
travelled between the regions
and, as Paris became more and
more cosmopolitan, Parisians
progressively saw the south as
a bucolic idyll frozen in time
and impervious to change.
Urban townspeople imagined
rural field-hands as robust,
diligent peasant workers, too
philistine for the
metropolitan world. The urban
elite increasingly used
stereotypes of the countryside
for their own agendas,
creating a form of induced
romantic nostalgia. As the
cities rapidly processed
advances in industry and dealt
with a burgeoning population,
many artists and writers used
images to convince urban
citizens to view the rural
south as a land romantically
caught in the past. The
peasants were a reminder of
life before the industrialised
city, a seemingly unchanging
people of the earth.
A leading member of the
school of Social Realism,
Lhermitte painted almost
exclusively, scenes taken from
rural life. The most profound
influence upon his work was
certainly Jean François
Millet, the creator of the
Angelus and many other
remarkable works, yet,
contrary to this, he clearly
remained true to his original
style of creating beautiful,
light-filled pictures in the
Barbizon tradition. Lhermitte
adopted early on the method of
peinture claire similar to
that of the Impressionists,
except in a more traditionally
academic style. He was a
talented artist, much
respected by his peers, who
was also quite commercially
successful. Van Gogh wrote of
him: "He is the absolute
master of the figure, he does
what he likes with it -
proceeding neither from the
colour nor the local tone but
rather from the light - as
Rembrandt did - there is an
astonishing mastery in
everything he does, above all
excelling in modelling, he
perfectly satisfies all that
honesty demands."
Lhermitte continued to
create works in the French
rural tradition until his
death in 1925, the last
survivor in an illustrious
group of artists.
"The Fish Market,St
Malo " signed in plate
£150 rare
"The Washerwomen," signed
in plate £150 rare
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Adolph Larsen (Danish,
1872-1927)
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Paul Léon JAZET
(1848-1918)Paul-Leon Jazet: A
French painter and etcher of
military scenes and portraits,
Paul-Leon Jazet studied art in
Paris, under Barrias. He first
exhibited at the Paris Salon
in 1869 and shortly thereafter
established an international
reputation with exhibitions in
both England and the United
States.signed in plate and
dated 1884 large format of
lady fencer with a group of
soldiers and circus
performers. Image size 32 x 24
cm some slight age toning and
an edge tear well out of plate
area
£65
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"Scuola di S Marco, Venice" by
A Simes £50 framed and
glazed in original frame
unopened. This is better than
many of Simes simple line
etchings
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 Gustave
Fraipont 'Arles'
Belgian (1849-1923)
naturalized French A
printmaker and poster artist
who did many posters
associated with his own print
shop as well as travel.
painter, engraver and poster
designer. Genuine antique
engraving about 1900. Original
color Etching with aquatint on
japan paper, signed with
pencil lower right
margin.First world war artist
who used two colour etchings
to dramatic effect £165
framed
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Munster by ? Gorr?????
£25 actually a quality
work
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Strasbourg (?) signed etching
unframed mounted simply to
preserve clean etc
£25
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Strasbourg (?)2 signed etching
unframed mounted simply to
preserve clean etc
£25
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Tomás FABREGAT
GARCIA, (XX) Etching or
woodblock in colours old repaired
tear to top edge and int sky area
, signed in pencil
£40
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Andalusian Cats by Carl Mayen
£92
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Galleon by A
RaddXXXXXXXXXXXmore ie another
dreadful illegible squiggle on
India paper signed and numbered 2
£105
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£35
signed in pencil. imagesize
225mm x 155mm... frame size 326 x
378mm; framed / glazed etc
Paul Duffray??
signed etching of "Notre Dame"
Paris
**For
Non European Sales please ask as
US customs only allow unframed
unless sent UPS and cannot
include this postage in
price**
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