FRENCH ARISTOCRAT NOBLE in COSTUME WAITS TO SEE KING ~ 1868 Art Print Engraving

Description: WAITING AN AUDIENCE Artist: J. L. E. Meissonier ____________ Engraver: C. Carey Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE 19th CENTURY ANTIQUE PRINTS LIKE THIS ONE!! PRINT DATE: This print was printed in 1868; it is not a modern reproduction in any way. PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 7 1/2 inches by 10 1/2 inches including white borders, actual scene is 5 1/2 inches by 8 inches. PRINT CONDITION: Condition is excellent. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. Paper is quality woven rag stock paper. SHIPPING: Buyer to pay shipping, domestic orders receives priority mail, international orders receive regular air mail unless otherwise asked for. We take a variety of payment options, more payment details will be in our email after auction close. We pack properly to protect your item! FROM THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: To every one in England who takes more than ordinary interest in modern painting the name of the French artist Meissonier is as familiar as that of any painter of our own school; in fact, we are not wrong in assuming that he owes no little of his great popularity to the high estimate in which English collectors have held, and still hold, his works. This has certainly enhanced much their pecuniary value, if it has done nothing more; as an instance, we saw a short time since, a picture by him, only a few inches in diameter, for which its owner, a countryman of our own, told us he had paid the artist the enormous sum of eight hundred guineas. So large a price for a "miniature" work by a living painter is, we believe, almost without a parallel; though it is said that the Emperor of the French paid him £800 for the picture of 'La Eixe,'-a larger canvas, by the way, than that just referred to,-presented by his Majesty to the late Prince Consort, and which was lent by our Queen this year to the "French and Flemish" exhibition in Pall Mall. Admitting all the excellences with which the works of this artist are universally credited, the only justification of such prices-if, indeed, it can be considered such-is, that his pictures are in demand, and they are comparatively few Meissonier was born at Lyons in 1811, and studied in Paris under Leon Gogniet, whose style, however, he did not follow, j but adopted that in which the old Dutch painters, Terburg and Metzu excelled-small genre pictures finished with the utmost delicacy of penciling. The attractive character of the subjects selected, and the artistic qualities which so eminently distinguished them, early won for him the favor of Parisian connoisseurs; and when they became known in, England, and were even more eagerly sought after here, the fame of the painter and the price of his productions rose in proportion. The earliest of the cabinet-gems exhibited by him were 'The Chess-Players ' and ' The Little Messenger,' in 1836. In the .Exposition Universelle of 1855 were nine of his works, all of the highest class in their peculiar manner: "One Bixe ' a different picture from that already spoken of; 'The Bravos;' 'Bowl Players' in the time of Louis XV.; ' Sunday -the Game of Cask;' 'A Young Man at Work;' ' A Young Man at Breakfast;' ' The Artist;' and portraits of two ladies grouped. Among his other works, which we only specify to show the class of subjects to which Meissonier limits himself almost exclusively, may be mentioned 'A Man choosing a Sword,' 'A Man in Armour,' 'An Amateur of Pictures in the Studio of a Painter,' ' The Guard-House,' ' Skittle-Players,' 'A Game of Piquet,' &c. &c. In these, and in all Meissonier's works, we find the utmost delicacy of manipulation combined with graceful and free drawing and richness of color: paintings on a small scale possessing these attributes in a higher degree never were seen from the pencil of any artist, living or dead. 'Waiting for an Audience ' is a beautiful specimen of his style, though it is nothing more than a single figure: a French gentleman in the costume of the middle of the last century, standing, with easy elegance, in the ante-room of some noble or courtier, waiting admission into the "presence." The picture is exquisitely engraved by Carey, an eminent French engraver. BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST: Jean-Louis Ernest Meissonier (b Lyon, 21 Feb 1815; d Paris, 31 Jan 1891). French painter, sculptor and illustrator. Although he was briefly a student of Jules Potier (1796-1865) and Léon Cogniet, Meissonier was mainly self-taught and gained experience by designing wood-engravings for book illustrations. These included Léon Curmer's celebrated edition of J.-H. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre's Paul et Virginie (Paris, 1838), the series Les Français peints par eux-mêmes (Paris, 1840-42) and Louis de Chevigné's Les Contes rémois (Paris, 1858). Such images, typically measuring 60*90 mm and composed of still-life motifs (books or drapery cascading from a chest, intricately arranged and exhaustively detailed), helped form the style for which Meissonier became famous as a painter. Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, etching, lithograph, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, and NOT blocks of steel or wood or any other material. "ENGRAVINGS", the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or "engravings" were created by the intaglio process of etching the negative of the image into a block of steel, copper, wood etc, and then when inked and pressed onto paper, a print image was created. These prints or engravings were usually inserted into books, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone lithographs. They often had a tissue guard or onion skin frontis to protect them from transferring their ink to the opposite page and were usually on much thicker quality woven rag stock paper than the regular prints. So this auction is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper. A RARE FIND! AND GREAT DECORATION FOR YOUR OFFICE OR HOME WALL. Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. 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Price: 5.59 USD

Location: New Providence, New Jersey

End Time: 2025-02-03T15:50:19.000Z

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