May 21, 2015 - Sale 2385

Sale 2385 - Lot 5

Unsold
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,500
(NÈGRE, CHARLES.)
Charles Nègre, Treize Hèliogravures 1854-1857.

Note Historique par André Jammes. Portfolio of 13 hand-pulled photogravures printed from Nègre's original steel plates, including a cliché-verre; sizes of image area range from 2x2 1/4 to 28x18 1/2 inches (5.1x5.7 to 71.1x47 cm.), sheet size ranges from 19 1/2x16 to 32 3/4x25 1/2 inches (49.5x40.6 to 83.2x64.8 cm.), with the edition notation 84/100, in pencil, and the Atelier Saint-Prex's embossed logo in the margin; the 2 largest plates with printed titles and credits. Elephant folio, cloth with a printed label; with the tall 4to in wrappers with Jammes' historical notations and an additional plate "Portrait d'Ingres" (1844) laid in; contents loose, as issued; in the original shipping box. one of 100 numbered copies.
Genève, Switzerland: Atelier de Saint-Prex, 1982

Additional Details

"Cathédrale de Chartres. Statues Colonnes de la Porte Centrale du Portail Royal" (before July 1857) "Cathédrale de Chartres. Portique du Midi" (1856-57) "Le Bûcheron" (1857?) "Groupe de trois Pifferari Debout, dans la cour du 21 Quai Bourbon" (1854?) "Portrait de Théophile Gautier, d'après Nadar" (1857) "Portrait de Jules Janin, d'après Nadar" (1857) "Le Louvre, Pavillon de Horloge" (1855) "Portrait du Prince Adam Georges Czartorisky, d'après Nadar" (1857) "Pifferaro debout et paysanne Italienne, Asse" (1855) "Le Maçon accroupi" (1854) "Place du Chatelet" (1854) "Portail de Saint-Trophime d'Arles" (before 1854) "Deux Arlésiennes dans le Cloître de Saint-Trophime d'Arles" (1854).