Name: Antique Master Print-DEPART-MARCHE-LEAVING FOR MARKET-WINTER-Jazet-c.1820
SKU: PCO-4398
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Antique Master Print-DEPART-MARCHE-LEAVING FOR MARKET-WINTER-Jazet-c.1820

€445.00

‘LE DEPART POUR LE MARCHE / JAZET SCULP. / A PARIS, CHEZ JAZET’

– A winter village scene with peasants and livestock departing for the market. Women, a child, a horse laden with goods, and cows populate the snowy road near a chapel and buildings.

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Description

Medium: Etching and aquatint etching with hand colouring. on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 53 x 42 cm (20.87 x 16.54 inch). Image size: 39 x 29 cm. (15.35 x 11.42 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light foxing, creasing and soiling. Small paper loss at bottom right, backed. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

JAZET, AQUATINT, MARKET, GENRE SCENE, 19TH CENTURY, RURAL FRANCE, VILLAGE LIFE, WINTER LANDSCAPE | PCO-B2-42

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published by Basset in Paris, c.1820.

Biography engraver: Jean-Pierre-Marie Jazet (1788-1871) was a French engraver known for aquatint and mezzotint techniques. A pupil of L.F. Debucourt, Jazet focused on genre scenes and reproductions after French masters. He exhibited at the Paris Salon from 1817.