Quarante Clichés-Glaces de J.B.C. Corot - C. Daubigny - E. Delacroix - J. F. Millet - Th. Rousseau tirés sur les plaques provenant de la collection de M. Cuvelier

Book Description

Paris: Chez Maurice Le Garrec, successor d'Edmond Sagot, 1921. Folio. (18 1/2 x 15 inches). 36 variously-sized cliché-verre plates numbered 1-40 (one plate includes five images), each plate with the pencilled edition number "32/150" and the publisher's stamp on the verso, each matted to a uniform size. Unbound as issued within original brown cloth portfolio, title blocked in gilt on the upper cover, cloth ties. A rare portfolio of cliché-verre prints by notable artists of the Barbizon school, limited to 150 copies "Essentially a hybrid of printmaking and photography, cliché- verre [also known as cliché-glace, both translated as glass negative] uses neither ink nor camera to produce, through photographic chemistry, hand- drawn or composed images on paper ... The period from the early 1850s through the 1870s was the golden age of cliché-verre in France. Along with Corot, a number of artists working in and near the town of Barbizon adopted the technique, including Theodore Rousseau, Charles Daubigny, Charles Jaque, Francois Millet, Paul Huet and others" (Encyclopedia of Nineteenth Century Photography, pp. 305-306). This rare portfolio, issued by Parisian art dealer Maurice Le Garrec, publishes 40 cliché-verres by Corot, Millet and others in the collection of Eugène Cuvelier, himself a noted fine art photographer and cliché-verre artist. The plates included are: COROT (19, including 5 on one sheet): La Petite Soeur; Le Petit Cavalier Sous Bois; Le Songeur; La Jeune Fille et la Mort; Le Grand Cavalier Sous Bois; Le Petit Berger 1re Planche; Le Petit Berger 2me Planche; Le Jardin de Périclès; L'allée des Peintres; Griffonnage; Le Grand Bucheron; La Tour d'Henri VIII; Souvenir d'Ostie; Les Jardins d'Horace; Jeune Mère a l'Entrée d'un Bois; Les Arbres dans la Montagne; Un Déjeuner dans la Clairière; La Ronde Gauloise; Souvenir du Bas-Bréau (Delteil 41-43, 45, 46, 49, 50, 52-56) DAUBIGNY (16): Le Marais aux Canards; Les Cerfs; Sentier dans les Blés; Le Pont; Le Ruisseau dans la Clairière; Le Grand Parc a Moutons; Le Gué; La Rentrée du Troupeau; La Gardeuse de Chèvres; La Fenaison; L'ane au Pré; Effet de Nuit; Le Bouquet d'Aunes; Vaches a l'Abreuvoir; La Machine Hydraulique; Vaches Sous Bois (Delteil 133-147, 149) DELACROIX (1): Tigre en Arrêt (Delteil 131) MILLET (2): La Précaution Maternelle; Femme Vidant un Seau (Delteil 27, 28) ROUSSEAU (2): Le Cerisier de la Plante a Viau; La Plaine de la Plante a Biau (Delteil 5,6). Only one set of this work has appeared on the market in recent years: Sotheby's London, 1 July 2004, £14,400.

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