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HORACE VERNET: ORIENTALISM browse these categories for related items... All Items: Fine Art: Prints: Engravings: Pre 1900: item # 567364
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| HORACE VERNET. "Judith & Holopherne." Color engraving by Jazet with hand-coloring, after the painting by Horace Vernet, on off-white wove mouldmade paper laid down on board, 16 7/8" x 14" (image), 27 7/8" x 22 1/2" (sheet), the composition in blue, red, orange, brown, yellow and off-white; engraved, "Peint par H. Vernet" just outside the image lower left, "Grave par Jazet" just outside the image lower right, and with the engraved legend outside the image, lower center, "Judith & Holopherne, Judith Ayant Prie le Seigneur en Silence S'Approcha de la Colonne qui Etait au chevet du lit d'Holopherne, et Delia son Sabre qui y Etait Attache...Judith, Chapitre XIII," the legend reproduced from calligraphic originals; engraved below the legend, "Paris, Publie par Goupel & Vibert, Boulevard Montmartre, 15, & rue de Lancry, 7," "Imprimerie de Goupil et Vibert" (in even smaller type) adjacent to this. The entire composition is bordered by a platemark, at a distance of either 1 1/8" (right and left sides and the top) or 3 1/4" (bottom) from the image. Undated; probably, a work from the 1830s or 1840s. Unframed. The sheet is backed with a guard sheet of off-white paper, the pair laid down on a card backboard, the two sheets wrapped over the narrow (1/8") edge of the backboard (which edge bears a number of small nail holes, from a former framing). One deduces that, notwithstanding its generous blank margins, the sheet has been trimmed, however minimally. The guard sheet has done its job admirably, as the print has not been discolored by acid in the backboard. The print surface is very slightly discolored, perhaps by mold. The sheets will have to be removed from the backboard and the print, perhaps, cleaned for the best possible presentation. The colors throughout are rich and luminous, and the print is a tour-de-force of color printmaking of the mid-nineteenth century. A rare survival. Emile Jean Horace Vernet (1789-1863), soldier-painter of renown. | |||||||||
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