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L'Apparition
Details
CLAUDE GELLÉE, CALLED CLAUDE LORRAIN (1600-1682)
L'Apparition
etching, 1630, on laid paper, watermark Bird in a Circle (probably with Letters A and N) (see Mannocci 6, Rome, early 1630s), a very fine, atmospheric and silvery impression, the very rare first state a (of five), before the scratch in the sky between the tree in the foreground and the tree in the middle distance, printing with subtle tonality and delicate inking in the right foreground, with narrow margins to thread margins on all sides, trimmed slightly unevenly to the platemark at lower left, with minor paper losses at the upper left sheet edge, some pale pinpoint foxmarks, remains of tape at upper and left sheet edges verso, otherwise in good condition
Plate 103 x 171 mm.
Sheet 105 x 173 mm.
L'Apparition
etching, 1630, on laid paper, watermark Bird in a Circle (probably with Letters A and N) (see Mannocci 6, Rome, early 1630s), a very fine, atmospheric and silvery impression, the very rare first state a (of five), before the scratch in the sky between the tree in the foreground and the tree in the middle distance, printing with subtle tonality and delicate inking in the right foreground, with narrow margins to thread margins on all sides, trimmed slightly unevenly to the platemark at lower left, with minor paper losses at the upper left sheet edge, some pale pinpoint foxmarks, remains of tape at upper and left sheet edges verso, otherwise in good condition
Plate 103 x 171 mm.
Sheet 105 x 173 mm.
Provenance
M. de Bameville (?) France (not in Lugt); his sale, Sotheby's, London, 8 May 1854 and following days, lot 72 ('first state, very fine and rare') (£ 18; to Colnaghi).
With Colnaghi & Co., London (probably sold to the below).
Julian Marshall (1836-1903), London (Lugt 1494); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 30 June 1864 (and following days), lot 316 (‘first state, before the angles of the plate were rounded, very rare; from the Bammeville Collection’) (£ 16; to Holloway).
With Holloway & Son, London.
Christie’s, London, 9 December 1998, lot 48.
With Colnaghi & Co., London (probably sold to the below).
Julian Marshall (1836-1903), London (Lugt 1494); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 30 June 1864 (and following days), lot 316 (‘first state, before the angles of the plate were rounded, very rare; from the Bammeville Collection’) (£ 16; to Holloway).
With Holloway & Son, London.
Christie’s, London, 9 December 1998, lot 48.
Literature
Mannocci 5
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