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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 4, 2017 | Sotheby's | London | Prints & Multiples | 34 | $****** - ****** | Good | LA TAUROMAQUIA (DELTEIL 224-256; HARRIS 204-236) |
Prints & Multiples
31.4 x 44.5 cm (12.36 x 17.52 in)
printed in dark umber ink, on fine laid papers, mounted within a 19th-century ledger, many popular prints and four gouache views, paper end pages watermarked Hudelist
Anne Adrien Duc de Montmorency Laval (1768-1837), Ambassador to Madrid (1814-1823), awarded the title Duque de San Fernando Luis by the King of Spain, thence by descent to
Charlotte Adélaïde de Montmorency Laval ( 1798-1872), thence by marriage and descent to her second son,
Adelaide Charles Marie Sigismond de Lévis Mirepoix (1821-1886), thence by descent and inheritance to the present owners.
Inscribed in pen and ink on the inside front cover: ‘prix convenu à
5 fr. 50 c / pour M. de Mirepoix, rue de la Planche, no 17, f[au]b[our]g S[ain]t G[ermain]. / lundi 21 à 10 h’. A label on the inside of the album cover indicates a Paris stationery shop, but its name and other information appear to have been scraped away.
The complete set of 33 etchings with burnished aquatint and lavis, drypoint and engraving, 1816, very fine to fine impressions from the First Edition, published by the artist, Madrid, 1816, printed in dark umber ink, the richly printed aquatints displayed to full, tonal effect, on fine laid papers, Plate 23 with a Serra watermark, the full sheets, mounted within a 19th-century ledger; together with five etchings after Velázquez (Harris 12-16), very good to pale impressions as published in the First or Second Editions (1778-9 and circa 1815-20); 90 hand-coloured lithographs after H. Bellangé, political and satirical items from the French and English press including Vanity Fair, many popular prints and four gouache views, the ledger bound in marbled half boards and green suede spine and corners, paper end pages watermarked Hudelist
We are grateful to Juliet Wilson Bareau for her assistance in cataloguing this lot.
The Tauromaquia sheets: approx. 314 by 445mm 12 3/8 by 17 3/4 in
album overall: 535 by 355 by 50 mm 21 by 13 7/8 by 2 in
