Lot n° 68
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3000 - 3500
EUR
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Result
: 4 508EUR
FERDINAND, prince d'Orléans (1810-1842). - Lot 68
FERDINAND, prince d'Orléans (1810-1842).
Croquis lithographiques de 14 estampes, Paris, 1830, in-4 oblong, 51 x 34 cm, [13] leaves, contemporary binding in eggplant chagrin, large cold decoration framing the boards, spine decorated with cold faux nerfs, gilt roulette at the edges, gilt inner roulette, gilt edges, white moiré endpapers, cover preserved. The plates are grouped together under an elegant, sober lithographed cover on fine blue paper, bearing only the title, the prince's name and the date. The set was printed in a very small number, and the very rare complete copies do not include the same plates, since the engravings in the first part were collected two years after they were printed. The lithographs were printed in Paris by Charles Motte (1785-1836), a talented Orléanist craftsman who had been lithographer to Monseigneur le Duc d'Orléans, the author's father, since 1824.
Detail of plates: 1. Two young children on a dog. Etching (?) on mounted gray chine (21.7 x 17.2 cm; basin: 23.5 x 18 cm) signed F O.
9bre 1828, printed on strong paper (32.9 x 25.8 cm) and pasted on the first sheet of the album (not mentioned by Béraldi) - 2. Deer resting by the water. Framed fillets. Aquatint in color (16.3 x 10.6 cm; bowl: 26.3 x 20.5 cm) signed and engraved by F. P. d'Orléans, printed on heavy paper (32.2 x 25.9 cm) and pasted on the second sheet of the album (Béraldi 5) - 3. Anons. Two heads. Etching on mounted chine (15.3 x 10.9 cm; basin:
16 x 11.4 cm) signed F. P. d'Orléans ext 7 1828, printed on heavy paper (32.8 x 25.9 cm) and pasted on the third sheet of the album (Béraldi 3) - 4. Foolish.
Black dog's head in a landscape. Framed fillets. Aquatint on mounted chine (7.7 x 8.8 cm; bowl: 14.6 x 18.5 cm), printed on heavy paper (26.6 x 25.8 cm) and mounted on the fourth sheet of the album (Béraldi 6) - 5.
Two rabbits playing at the entrance to their burrow. Framed fillets. Aquatint on mounted chine (13.6 x 9.6 cm; basin: 22.4 x 16.5 cm) signed F. P. O June 1828, printed on heavy paper (32.7 x 25.8 cm) and pasted on the fifth sheet of the album (Béraldi 1) - 6. Sitting monkey framed with plants. Etching on mounted chine (16 x 21.8 cm; basin: 17 x 22.4 cm) signed Drawn & engraved by F P O. July 1828, printed on strong paper (26.7 x 25.5 cm) and pasted on the sixth sheet of the album (Béraldi 3) - 7. Newfoundland dog running in front of a hedge. Framed fillets. Aquatint on mounted gray chine (16.6 x 11.8 cm; basin: 24.4 x 19.2 cm) signed F. P. O. in the illustration and engraved with Aquatinta by F. P. d'Orléans in the frame, printed on heavy paper (32.8 x 25.8 cm) and pasted on the seventh sheet of the album (not mentioned by Béraldi) - 8. Sheet of 8 sketches: dog's head, green collars, deer and doe in a park, sparrow hawk, boats on the beach, marine and two small humorous scenes. Lithograph printed on pearl gray mounted chine
(35 x 30), signed F d'Orléans Jer 1830 (Béraldi 10) - 9. sheet of 9 sketches: crowned crane, snake, marines, hussar, cauchoise, etc. Lithograph printed on pearl gray mounted chine (35 x 28.8), signed F d'Orléans Jer 1830 (Béraldi 9) - 10. Marine - Fox with a bird in its mouth at the edge of a marsh. Two lithographs printed on mounted pearl-gray chine (23 x 18.5), the second signed F d'Orléans 1830 (Béraldi 7 & 8) - 11. Sheet of 9 sketches: green collar, fox head, woodcock at the water's edge, rooster heads, fishing boat, Egyptian landscape, etc. Lithograph printed on mounted pearl gray chine (38.8 x 28.8), signed F d'Orléans Jer 1830 (Béraldi 11) - 12. 4 views of Staffa... Lithograph printed on mounted pearl gray chine (39 x 28.5), signed F. O. (Béraldi 9) - 13.
Gulliver asleep. Humorous allegory of the conflicting relations between King Louis-Philippe (in the guise of Gulliver) and the deputies (represented as Lilliputians). Lithograph printed on mounted pearl-gray chine (39 x 28.8), signed F d'Orléans. Jer 1830 (Béraldi 12).
Reference: A rare album that seems to be absent from all French and foreign public libraries. It was probably made only for the prince's family. The only other known complete copy is that owned by the author's great-grandson, the Comte de Paris (1908-1999), which was sold by Sotheby's in Paris in 2015 (presumably with a different aquatint and lithograph from this copy). The third listed copy, from the hunting library of Jean Berger (Christie's Monaco, July 2, 1993; no. 125), comprised just 12 plates. A very fine copy in perfect condition in a sober, strictly contemporary romantic binding (spine rebound in imitation).
Some marginal spotting to last few plates. Marginal oxidation of endpapers. Henri Béraldi. Les Graveurs du XIXe siècle; pp. 234-236, who notes that "the work [of the Duc d'Orléans] is the most developed" among the pr
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