GRABADOS ARENBERG 19.10.2019

Koperplaten – Verzameling E.S. – Plaques de cuivre – Collection E.S.
accorde son amitié à Télémaque et lui raconte ses aventures» (Livre XV),
«Adraste surprend l’armée des alliés, combat Phalante et tue Hippias» (Livre
XVI). Jehotte (1772-1851) is especially known as engraver of the medals of the
Principality of Liège.
Ref. De Theux 575. - Micha, Alfred - Les graveurs liégeois. Liège, 1908, p. 104.
617
VAN MALLERY, Karel - 2 scenes from the life of Christ. [17th c.].
12 x 7 cm each, signed «C. de Mallery scul[psit]».
120 / 200 €
614
[LAUNAY, Nicolas de. After Clément-Pierre MARILLIER] -
«Sapho». C. 1777.
14 x 9,5 cm, picture: 8,5 x 4,6 cm.
120 / 200 €
Plate without the artists’ names. Bust portrait seen in three-quarter profile
from the left. Under the medallion, a bas-relief with two putti playing the lyre.
This engraving was published i.a. as frontisp. of the «Poésies de Sapho...» by
Billardon de Sauvigny (Amsterdam [Paris, Cazin], 1777). Some copies of this
edition have the portrait without the artists’ names.
Ref. BnF (1 issue before the artists’ names). - Cohen 150/151.
615
3 picturesque views. [End 18th - early 19th c.].
(Some sl. and sm. stains and scratches).
100 / 200 €
1. [Illegible signature] - «Dolbadarn Castle». 1822. 8 x 18 cm. The legendary
ruined tower of this fortress in North Wales, built in the early 13th c. by the Welsh
prince Llywelyn the Great.— 2. Landscape with a farm and some peasants.
15,2 x 16,8 cm, picture: 10 x 13,4 cm.— 3. Hovel with thatched roof, a peasant
woman carrying a pitcher. 8,8 x 10,5 cm.
616
QUENEDEY, Edme - Portrait of a man sketched with a
physiognotrace. Paris, 1808.
10,2 x 8,2 cm.
150 / 250 €
Fine engravings by K. Van Mallery (1571-1635?), with title on the top, quote of
the evangelical text below, all in Latin: 1. «Maria Iesum in Templum defert»
[Presentation of Jesus in the Temple].— 2. «Maria Iesum inter doctores reperit»
[Jesus among the doctors in the Temple].
Joined: Issue of each plate, on old laid paper. (2pcs)
618
VAN MERLEN, Cornelis - 5 emblematic plates from a series on
the Beatitudes. [17th c.].
± 11 x 6,5 cm, sign. «Cor. Van Merlen».
200 / 300 €
Nice portrait in profile bust from the right, sketched and engraved by Quenedey
(1756-1830), the first partner of Gilles-Louis Chrétien (1754-1811), the inventor
of the physiognotrace (in French «physionotrace»). This device, invented in 1787,
was designed to trace especially profile portraits in the form of a silhouette,
using the same mechanism as the pantograph.
Beautiful figures by the Antwerp engraver and editor C. Van Merlen (1654-1723),
illustrating the «Beatitudes» (num. 1, 3, 6, 7, 8) represented by women. Captions
in Latin below.
Joined: Issue of each plate (num. 6 in duplicate). (11 pcs)
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