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Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre

The Chinese Masquerade, 1735
etching
30.5 x 42.5 cm
12 1/8 x 16 3/4 in
Rare
€ 12,000.00
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[The Chinese Masquerade] Etching, 305 x 425 mm. Le Blanc 25, Baudicour 27, Lesur and Aaron G.1. Rare and superb impression, with very rich contrasts. This impression was printed before...
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[The Chinese Masquerade]

Etching, 305 x 425 mm. Le Blanc 25, Baudicour 27, Lesur and Aaron G.1.

Rare and superb impression, with very rich contrasts. This impression was printed before the some scratches were burnished, in particular those on the building in the backgound: on the left pilaster and on the right window. The white areas resulting from this burnishing are visible on the later impressions, e.g. on the impression in the National Gallery of Art.

Impression on laid watermarked paper (watermark: probably fleur-de-lys in a double circle). A flattened vertical central fold; some very pale surface dirt in the right margin, otherwise in very good condition. Annotated in pencil bottom right below the borderline: Rome - 1735 and bottom center: 10. Good margins (sheet: 360 x 480 mm).

Provenance: Collection mark printed verso: Col. L. BONGARD in an oval (Lugt undescribed).

The Chinese Masquerade engraving is Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre’s masterpiece. In 1734, at 20 years old, he wins the Prix de Rome for painting (the famous first prize of the French Academy of Fine Arts in Rome) and is invited to spend some time at the French Academy in Rome, as a ‘pensioner of the King’, between 1735 and 1740. His engraving reflects the exuberant enthusiasm of the young French artists, on display for the Romans, who are themselves wearing costumes for the Carnival. “The float on which the French pensioners are sitting is seen here going past the Antonine column, the Piazza Colona, almost opposite Palazzo Mancini, the seat of the French Academy in Rome.” (Lesur and Aaron, p. 478, our translation). The engraving is dedicated to the duc de Saint-Aignan, the French ambassador in Rome.

Rare and superb impression.



References: Carlson, Victor I.: Regency to Empire: French printmaking, 1715-1814, 1984, no. 21. Nicolas Lesur and Olivier Aaron: Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, 1714-1789 : premier peintre du roi, 2009.
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Collection mark printed verso: Col. L. BONGARD in an oval (Lugt undescribed).
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