Jean-Louis Desprez (1743-1804)
Jean-Louis Desprez (1743-1804)

La Chimère de Monsieur Desprez

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Jean-Louis Desprez (1743-1804)
La Chimère de Monsieur Desprez

etching, before 1771, on laid paper, with an unidentified watermark, a fine impression of this very rare print, before the second state (of five), trimmed on or just within the platemark above and below, with narrow to small margins at left and right, very pale staining, three short repaired tears at the sheet edges, one just into the subject above, otherwise in good condition
P. 280 x 358 mm., S. 319 x 385 mm.
來源
With Galerie Paul Prouté, Paris (by repute).
Private collection, Sweden, probably acquired from the above in the 1920's; then by descent to the present owner.
出版
Baudicour 6; Wollin 22.
V. Carlson & J. Ittmann, Regency to Empire - French Printmaking 1715-1814, The Baltimore Museum of Fine Art & Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984, no. 80 (an impression of an intermediate state illustrated).
P. Stein, Artists and Amateurs, Etching in 18th-century France, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2013, no. 52 (a second/third state impression illustrated).

拍品專文

Baudicour's first state is before all letters, although no impression can be traced today. In the second state, such as the impressions in the British Museum and in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the print is inscribed Desprez inv. et Sculpt at lower left. The present impression does not bear this inscription. It does, however, show a very lightly etched inscription at lower left, which is illegible. It might be the inscription discovered by Victor Carlos on an impression in the Bonafous-Murat Collection, Paris, which he transcribed as the artist's signature followed by the words del Rom. Whether or not this is the case, there can be no doubt that the present impression was printed before the second state and is thus one of the earliest known. According to our records only two impressions of La Chimère, later states, have appeared at auction in the last three decades.

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