Verlag: LondonThe Erotic Print Society ., 1996
Anbieter: Robert Frew Ltd. ABA ILAB, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
DE LUXE LIMITED EDITION (2,500). This copy unnumbered. Two faithful reproductions of the artist's original etchings printed on 300 gsm Canaletto paper, both prints measuring 330 x 220 mm. With leaf of descriptive text loose as issued in original publisher's blue portfolio with green title-label to upper cover. THE ARTIST: (Born 4th January 1747, Chalon-sur-Saône; died 27th April 1825, Paris) First a law student in Paris, Denon turned to writing for the theatre, and at the tender age of 23 produced his first successful play. Denon's potential as a diplomat was recognised after a commis- sion to arrange a cabinet of carved gems for Louis XV, and he carried out missions to Russia, Switzerland and Naples between 1772 and 1787; that last year in Naples, while still in the King's employ, he was elected to the Académie de Peinture and he etched La Belle Napolitaine on copper. During the Revolution Denon returned to Paris, where he was given protection by his friend, the important Neo-Classical painter, Jacques-Louis David. He accompanied Napoleon on the famous Egyptian expedition of 1798 and there he made hundreds of sketches of the ancient monuments, sometimes even under enemy fire. The results were published in his Voyage dans la basse et la haute Égypte (Travels in Lower and Upper Egypt) of 1802. Napoleon made the artist Director General of Museums in 1804, a post he retained until 1815. Denon travelled with the Emperor in this position on expeditions to Austria, Spain, and Poland and advised on which works of art to pillage from the various conquered countries. Ultimately, many of these works found a new home in the Louvre: given this rather advantageous acquisition policy, Denon was perfectly situated to plan the development of the museum's collection. THE WORK: These two prints are from Denon's Oeuvre Priapique (Priapic Works), a collection published pri- vately in 1792. As an artist-collector, the Vivant-Denon drew enthusiastically on the large re- serves of classical antiquities in Naples, but the origins of this beautiful woman are more obscure. From the title one might guess that she was a famous courtesan or model, but there is an element of intimate, almost proprietorial, observation in the work that leads the viewer to believe that the subject may have been the artist's mistress of the time. THE TIME: As well as removing the monarchy and a large part of the aristocracy, the first apostles of the Revolution swept away many of the beliefs and customs of the ancien régime. Advocates of the new protocol tried to place as much distance, culturally speaking, between themselves and the previous ruling elite as they could. But the Neo-Classical style pre-dated the Revolution by more than a decade and many of the Revolution's influential architects of form brought with them luggage from the previous era. A former aristocrat and power-broker par excellence of the time, Talleyrand, noted that these memories were 'of a sweetness which those born after the Revolution would never know.' There is no reason to doubt the revolutionary fervour of Bonaparte's trusty curator and antiquarian. Nevertheless, the style and delicacy of Vivant-Denon's art as well as the hedonistic character of his life betray an artist and man whose roots were firmly in Bourbon France while his canopy was in the arriviste world of the nouvelle bourgeoisie.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1017854440 ISBN 13: 9781017854442
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Verlag: Creative Media Partners, LLC Okt 2022, 2022
ISBN 10: 1017848076 ISBN 13: 9781017848076
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.
Relié. Zustand: . In 8 plein maroquin abricot, dos à nerfs, tête dorée, dentelles intérieures, couverture conservée ( reliure signé Sotheran London). VII et 38 pages, édition illustrée d'un portrait et de 13 vignettes in-texte gravées à l'eau-forte et d'une grande composition sur la couverture de Paul Avril. Un des 300 exemplaires numérotés sur papier de Hollande paraphé par l'éditeur.
Anbieter: Antiquariat Michael Eschmann, Groß-Gerau, Deutschland
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Verlag: París, 1790
Anbieter: LIBRERIA ANTICUARIA MARGARITA DE DIOS, MADRID, Spanien
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Sin Encuadernar. Zustand: Bien. Materia: Grabado antiguo de finales del siglo XVIII. Egipto. Mezquita. Figuras desnudas - Dominique Vivant, Barón de Denon. Publicación: París, 1790. "L'uvre originale de Vivant Denon, ancien directeur général des musées; collection de 317 eaux-fortes dessinées et gravées par ce célèbre artiste, réunion formant l'album le plus complet et le plus varié pour l'étude de la gravure à l'eau-forte; avec une notice très-détaillée sur sa vie intime, ses relations et son uvre". Técnica: Grabado calcográfico. Aguafuerte, aguatinta. Blanco y negro con tonalidades sepia sobre papel verjurado. Medidas: 10'5 x 16'5 cm [huella], 33 x 50'5 cm [papel], 38 x 51'5 cm [passepartout]. Conservación: Excelente estado. Buena impresión con todos los márgenes. Biografía del autor: Dominique Vivant (1747-1825) fue pintor, dibujante, grabador, escritor y Barón de Denon. Trabajó como diplomático en Nápoles (1779-1785), donde aprendió a grabar, viajó por Italia en 1788/89 y se instaló en Venecia, de donde fue expulsado en julio de 1793, lo que provocó su regreso a París, fue con Napoleón en 1797-1798 a Egipto. Fue ministro de Napoleón de las Artes y primer director del Louvre (1802-1815), París, publicó dos catálogos de sus impresiones (en 1793 y en 1803). Realizó una serie de aguafuertes de temática erótica del que este ejemplar es una maravillosa muestra. Bibliografía y referencias: Daniela Gallo, "Les vies de Dominique-Vivant Denon: actes du colloque organisé au Musée du Louvre", 2 vols, Paris (la Documentation française), 2001. Inventaire du Fonds Français: Bibliothèque Nationale, Département des Estampes, Paris, 1930.
Anbieter: Antiquariat Michael Eschmann, Groß-Gerau, Deutschland
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In-8. En feuilles sous couverture rempliée, double emboîtage. Edition illustrée de 22 très belles gravures sur bois coloriées au pochoir par Gradassi. Tirage limité à 725 exemplaires numérotés, 1 des 500 exemplaires sur vélin de Rives. Exemplaire enrichi d'une suite supplémentaire en couleurs de 5 planches refusées fort libres. (emboîtage un peu frotté).
Erscheinungsdatum: 1799
Anbieter: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. First edition. 4 vols, including one atlas vol. 38 plates (some with multiple images), including a large folding map, plus frontispiece portrait (in atlas volume). 4to & 16mo. The text volumes in full mottled calf with gilt spine decoration and borders, plus inner gilt dentelles. Vol. 1 has a small slightly chafed and darkened area on the upper board, near fine otherwise. The atlas volume in calf-backed pink paper boards with green vellum tips, spine gilt with red morocco labels, spine a little worn with joint coming apart at foot, covers a little rubbed and soiled, interior clean & bright. viii, 425, [iii]; 417 (including folding table); [iii], 424pp. Paris, F. Buisson, Year 7 of the Republic,
Verlag: Charles Taylor, London, 1819
Anbieter: Phillip J. Pirages Rare Books (ABAA), McMinnville, OR, USA
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FIRST EDITION. 515 x 350 mm. (20 1/4 x 13 3/4"). vi, 146, [2] pp. HANDSOME CONTEMPORARY RED STRAIGHT-GRAIN MOROCCO, GILT, covers elaborately framed in gilt and blind, raised bands, spine panels with intricate gilt medallion centerpiece, gilt lettering, heraldic crest of Lyme stamped in gilt at foot of spine, turn-ins framed in gilt and blind, (original?) leather hinges, all edges gilt (very expert joint and corner restoration). With 110 ENGRAVED PLATES of Egyptian places, people, and antiquities, one double-page, seven folding, as called for. A Large Paper Copy. Text in French and English in parallel columns. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Lyme (engraved by J. F Badeley and dated 1904) and small library shelf label. âFrontispiece portrait and half a dozen other plates somewhat foxed, four folding plates with expert repairs, faint offsetting from engravings, isolated marginal foxing, otherwise fine--quite clean, fresh, and bright internally, with crisp impressions of the engravings and generous margins. This is the rare oversize first edition of these text excerpts and plates, adapted from Baron Denon's much more costly 1802 edition, "Voyage dans la basse et la haute Égypte, pendant les Campagnes du Général Bonaparte," published in English in 1804 as "Travels in Lower and Upper Egypt during the Campaigns of General Bonaparte." The present work combines the 110 famed engravings from the English printing with descriptions of their subjects, supplied in both French and English. According to Terence M. Russell's "Discovery of Egypt," the French artist, writer, diplomat, and archaeologist Dominique Vivant Denon (1747-1825) was the chief artistic adviser to then-First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte, and "was known as 'Napoleon's eye.'" He had met the future emperor at the salon of future empress Josephine de Beauharnais, and was invited by Napoleon to join the Egypt expeditionary force under General Desaix as an arts and culture observer. He made sketches of the remarkable monuments--sometimes while under enemy fire--as well as of the ports, the cities, the inhabitants, and the art, particularly ancient hieroglyphics. When he published the illustrated account of his journey, Russell tells us, "His insightful and deeply humane volume became an instant bestseller. Hitherto no one had suspected that Egypt's rich and mature civilisation existed. . . . Denon was the first to present to Europe a true and honest image of ancient Egypt and the first European traveller to spend months exploring the desert and recording the monuments he found there." He was "the primary force behind revealing Egypt's civilisation to an astonished Europe." His book helped bring about the Egyptian Revival movement in the decorative arts. Our volume presents his influential plates, considered the highlight of his work, to a wider, international audience. The present copy once resided in the stately library at Lyme Park, the family seat of Thomas Legh, 2nd Baron Newton, where other holdings included the Caxton Missal (1487), the earliest surviving printing of a missal using the Sarum Rite.
Anbieter: Antiquariat Michael Eschmann, Groß-Gerau, Deutschland
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0. Schönes, großformatiges Blatt. - Gute Erhaltung. Sprache: Deutschu.