THIS STEEL ENGRAVING IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH MINIMAL SOILING AND AGE RELATED PAPER TONING.
THE EDGES OF THE PAPER HAVE LIGHT BUMPS AND IMPERFECTIONS. The top edge has tiny nicks where the print had been sewn into the binding.
THIS WAS PRINTED IN 1860 IN LONDON BY JAMES S. VIRTUE. PAPER SIZE IS APPROXIMATELY 9 3/8" X 12 1/2". THE IMPRINT "LONDON: JAMES S. VIRTUE" IS VISIBLE AT THE BOTTOM EDGE BUT HAS BEEN PARTIALLY CUT OFF DUE TO THE EXTRA LINE IN THE TITLE.
THE ORIGINAL PAPER WAS BOUND INTO A VOLUME OF "THE ART JOURNAL" AND HAS LOST APPROXIMATELY 1/8 OF AN INCH ALONG THE EDGE THAT WAS CONNECTED IN THE BOOK.
THE LEFT EDGE HAS NICKS WHERE THE PRINT WAS SEWN INTO A BINDING.
VERY MINOR HANDLING MARKS FOR A PRINT ON HEAVY STOCK PAPER THAT IS NEARLY 165 YEARS OLD.
This engraving is from an incomplete painting from 1856 and the engraving was completed in 1860. Below the title is the statement "The last sketch of Delaroche".
PLEASE NOTE: THE LAST TWO PHOTOS ARE NOT PART OF THE AUCTION AND EXIST FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY, SHOWING THE SOURCE OF THE STEEL ENGRAVING AND THE DATE AND LOCATION WITHIN THE CONTENTS.
The painter was Henry Mark Anthony and the engraver Robert Wallis
Napoleon, full-length, seated on a ledge on a promontory overlooking the sea. He faces the spectator, resting his head on his right hand, his right elbow propped on a niche in the rock beside him; he wears a brooding or melancholic expression.
This oil sketch was made in preparation for an enormous canvas featuring the massive, brooding figure of the exiled Emperor. A large preparatory drawing, photographed by Robert Bingham on the wall of Delaroche's studio for a catalogue, was later destroyed, it is therefore the Royal Collection's oil sketch that formed the basis for the engraving by CW Sharpe, published in the 'Art Journal' in 1860.
PLEASE USE ZOOM FUNCTION ON ALL PHOTOS AS THEY ARE PART OF THE
DESCRIPTION.
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