J b verzy (7 risultati)

Paperback or Softback. Condizione: New. Ad�lie, Ou Une M�re Et Sa Fille, Com�die En 1 Acte Et En Prose. Book.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New. In English.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: New.

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Delivered from our UK warehouse in 4 to 14 business days. THIS BOOK IS PRINTED ON DEMAND. Established seller since 2000.

No Binding. Condizione: VG. Owned by one of the Great Napoleon Print Collectors, Achille Bertarelli. Conceived as an allegorical manifesto for the young Empire, this large color-printed stipple engraving presents the figure of Renown as the mouthpi. Stipple and roulette engraving, printed la poup e in delicate tonal gradations and heightened with transparent washes. Trimmed to the platemark at top and bottom (see provenance note). Few repaired tears. Some minor soiling. Good to VG. Owned by one of the Great Napoleon Print Collectors, Achille Bertarelli. Conceived as an allegorical manifesto for the young Empire, this large color-printed stipple engraving presents the figure of Renown as the mouthpiece of a nation united behind Napoleon. She streaks across an unbounded sky, her trumpet twisting into a gilded bouquet of twelve cameo-like heads (soldier, magistrate, artisan, even Mamluk) whose variety prefigures the twelve spoken eulogies engraved below. The sweeping ribbons that bind the horn mirror the looping flourishes of the calligraphic texts, visually yoking image and inscription. A continuous panoramic frieze of idealized Mediterranean terrain lies along the lower edge, implying that the Emperor s beneficence embraces every shore over which the eagle of France might fly. The dedication au Peuple Fran ais sits above an imperial eagle framed by laurel, while the paired columns of cursive orations enumerate the blessings (military glory, social peace, renewed industry, protection of the arts) that each social group attributes to Napoleon s genius. The voices rise like a chorus, the trumpet s multi-headed bell literalizing their collective acclaim. The plate carries the legal-deposit legend D pos la Biblioth. Imp riale together with the artists signatures, situating the work in the first flush of imperial cultural policy, when the print trade was mobilised to disseminate the new regime s universal message of order and achievement. Jean-Baptiste Verzy, whose signature appears as J. B. Verzy del., seems to have worked in Paris for little more than a decade, roughly from the Consulate through the first years of the Restoration. His surviving production consists almost entirely of stipple or dotted-line engravings celebrating current political events: meetings of monarchs, victories, royal entries, and ingenious folding broadsides that could be re-configured to reveal hidden portraits. A novelty print published by him for the return of Louis XVIII circa 1814 is preserved at the Beinecke Library, Yale, and auction catalogues record several other Napoleonic allegories from 1806 08, confirming Verzy s role as designer-publisher at the propaganda end of the Paris print trade. The plate was engraved and color-printed by Jean-Baptiste Huet (1745 1811), painter, print-maker and long-time designer for Oberkampf s manufactory at Jouy-en-Josas. Elected agr to the Acad mie Royale in 1768, Huet perfected the use of stipple and roulette to simulate miniature painting, printing his plates la poup e in multiple inks before adding transparent washes. That virtuoso handling of tone and colour, familiar today from his animal studies and the Jeux d enfants series, lends an extraordinary luminosity to the present sheet. Quite rare; this being the only example we trace in the market. Map.…