Leprince, Xavier (10 results)

En feuille. Condition: Très bon. édition originale. Beau portrait lithographié de ce grand acteur. 35 x 26,5 cm.

Condition: Good. Original lithograph on chine colle. 34 x 52.5 cm (sheet). Very Good, some foxing, mostly in the margins. As published in ?Galerie de son Altesse Royale Madame la Duchesse de Berry. Ecole Francaise. Peintres Modernes. Ouvrage Dedie a son Altesse Royale et Lithographie par d'Habiles Artistes sous la Direction de M. Le Chevalier Bonnemaison, Membre de la Legion d'Honneur, Directeur de la Restauration des Tableaux du Musee Royal, et Conservateur de la Galerie de son Altesse Royale?.Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchesse de Barry; Daughter of Francis, Duke of Calabria, later King of the two Sicilies; m. Charles Ferdinand Duc de Berry (son of Charles X) in 1816. Mother of Henri Duc de Bordeaux, exiled with the rest of the court in 1830, came back clandestinely in April 1832 in an attempt to place her son on the throne with her as a regent. Arrested and imprisoned in November 1832, freed in 1833 and sent to Palermo; she settled in Austria where she died.She commissioned a series of 250 lithographs reproducing paintings from the collection of the Duc de Berry. The plates were published from 1822, and two volumes binding the plates together were issued in 1824 and 1826.

Condition: Good. Original lithograph on chine colle. 34 x 52 cm (sheet). Very Good, some foxing, mostly in the margins. As published in ?Galerie de son Altesse Royale Madame la Duchesse de Berry. Ecole Francaise. Peintres Modernes. Ouvrage Dedie a son Altesse Royale et Lithographie par d'Habiles Artistes sous la Direction de M. Le Chevalier Bonnemaison, Membre de la Legion d'Honneur, Directeur de la Restauration des Tableaux du Musee Royal, et Conservateur de la Galerie de son Altesse Royale?.Marie Caroline Ferdinande Louise de Bourbon-Sicile, Duchesse de Barry; Daughter of Francis, Duke of Calabria, later King of the two Sicilies; m. Charles Ferdinand Duc de Berry (son of Charles X) in 1816. Mother of Henri Duc de Bordeaux, exiled with the rest of the court in 1830, came back clandestinely in April 1832 in an attempt to place her son on the throne with her as a regent. Arrested and imprisoned in November 1832, freed in 1833 and sent to Palermo; she settled in Austria where she died.She commissioned a series of 250 lithographs reproducing paintings from the collection of the Duc de Berry. The plates were published from 1822, and two volumes binding the plates together were issued in 1824 and 1826.

"Les Patineurs" lithografie vervaardigd rond 1823 door Féréol de Bonnemaison te Parijs naar een schilderij van Auguste-Xavier Leprince . Later met de hand gekleurd. Afm. 25,5 x 34,5 cm. (incl. tekst) Xavier Leprince (1799-1826) exposeerde op de Parijse Salon van 1819 tot 1827. Zijn werk moet bijzonder populair geweest zijn bij fans als koning Karel X en de hertogin van Berry, zoals blijkt uit een gloedvolle recensie van het schilderij waarnaar de prent gemaakt is: "De winter, met zijn trieste en woeste voorhoofd, schudde zijn besneeuwde haren; het water stopte met stromen; de meren en rivieren werden glad en gepolijst. Vanaf dat moment haastten zich jong en oud, rijk en arm, elegante stedelingen en grove dorpelingen, om gezamenlijk te zwieren op de fragiele spiegel. Welk een verwarring bij deze vreemde ontmoeting. Welk applaus voor de geoefende schaatsers. Welk een boe-geroep voor hen die iedere stap afwisselen met een val. Dit is het schouwspel dat monsieur Leprince ons op zijn schilderij laat zien. Met gemak brengt hij leven, geeft hij beweging aan de vele figuren waarmee de voorstelling gevuld is. De bewolkte en tegelijkertijd transparante lucht, het ijzige oppervlak waarop weerspiegelingen en barsten zeer nauwkeurig worden weergegeven. Al deze details duiden op de kundigheid van de kunstenaar en diens bijzondere aandacht om de natuur in al haar facetten getrouw weer te geven." Prijs: Euro 350,-.

1 volume grand in-4° relié demi-basane rouge, dos lisse uniformément insolé, titre doré. 12 lithographies aquarellées Anciennement attribuées à Henri-Gérard Fontallard, l'oeuvre est d'Auguste Xavier Leprince. 1ère Parade - 1791 : Colombine délaissée ou Fiez-vous aux vains discours des hommes. 2e Parade - 1793 : L'Orateur Populaire ou vivre libre ou mourir ! 3e Parade - 1795 : Le Directorien ou Veillons au Salut de l'Empire. 4e Parade - 1799 : Le 18 Brumaire an (.) ou La raison du plus fort est toujours la meilleure. 5ème Parade - 1800. Le Grenadier des Consuls, ou Je suis Français mon pays avant tout. 6e Parade - 1808 : Le Chambellan ou Adieu Marton ! Adieu Rosette ! 7e Parade - 1814 : Le Marquis de Bergame ou Vive le Roi ! quand même ! 8e Parade - 1815 : Le Champ de Mai ou L'on revient toujours à ses premiers amours. 9e Parade - 1820 : Tartufe, ou L'Habit ne fait pas le Moine. 10e Parade - 1823 : Le Diner ou Du Courage, les amis sont toujours la ! 11e Parade - 1825 : La Cloture, ou Ventre affamé n'a pas d'oreilles. 12e Parade - 1826. Le Congréganiste ou Il est avec le Ciel des accommodements. Rarissime série de caricatures publiées en Belgique avec pour fil conducteur le personnage d'Arlequin toujours reconnaissable à son pantalon incarnant divers personnages de la Révolution en passant par l'Empire et la Restauration. NOTICE FOR FOREIGN CUSTOMERS : The ECONOMIC SHIPPING RATE is reserved by FRENCH POST for books whose weight is less than 2KG ! We have limited too this offer for books whose value is less than 30 euros. Shipping will increase if you choose this rate for a value or heavy book. If you select a Paypal payment in this particular case we cannot change the shipping rate on Abebooks but this one will increase in the Paypal invoice. So be careful please to select the appropriate shipping rate taking into consideration the book value or the weight or both.

Condition: molto buono. Quarto (370x275), 12 hand-coloured lithographed plates by Langlum after Leprince, who is suggested as the author in an old catalogue entry pasted on front flyleaf. The title is instead suggested by the gilt title on the spine of the nice 19th c. 3/4 brown morocco binding.  Auguste-Xavier Leprince (1799-1826), "was the son and pupil of the painter and lithographer Anne-Pierre and the elder brother of the painters Robert-Leopold (1800-47) and Gustave (1810-37). His numerous Paris street scenes usually depicted some well-known contemporary events." (Grove).  They are similar to some of the satirical plates of this rare suite of 12 caricatures of Harlequin as a Character just after the French Revolution. The author and the printer, who preferred to remain anonymous, were not confident in French censorship laws. Her are the headlines of the titles, which are usually followed by a line of explication: 1791. Columbine délaisée. - 1795. L'Orateur Populaire. - 1795. Le Directorien.  - 1799.  Le 18 Brumaire. - 1800.  Le Grenadier des Consuls.  - 1808. Le Chambellan. - 1814. Le Marquis de Bergame. - 1815. Le Champ de Mai. - 1820. Tartufe. - 1823. Le Diner. - 1825. La Clôture. - 1826. Le Congréganiste.  In fact, not only Arlecchino, but many other characters of the Commedia dell'Arte as Colombina, Pulcinella, Balanzone, are involved. Who could be the Marquis de Bergame in plate 7, as Arlecchino was the lazy servant of a master from Bergamo? A nice copy, some plates are printed on a slightly tuned and shorter paper. Book.

Scarce Odyssey of Harlequin As a Character In France's Political Drama 1791-1826 [LEPRINCE, Xavier]. Métamorphoses de'Alequin. Parades. [Jouées sur le Théâtre Français. Bruxelles: n.p., 1826]. First edition. Oblong quarto. Twelve hand-colored lithographed stub-mounted plates, size: 10 5/8 x 14 1/8 inches (271 x 360 mm). Bound late 19th century by G. Carayon in half deep cordovan straight-grain morocco over marbled boards. Bookplate of Ch. Bouret on front pastedown. Some very light foxing mainly on the first plate but still a fine copy. Extremely scarce, with only one copy (at the BM) recorded by OCLC/KVK, and no copies coming to auction within the last thirty-six years. The BM atrributes this album to Henri-Gerard Fontallard but that cannot be so. Close comparison with caricatures signed by Leprince and Fontallard conclusively demonstrate that the style here is dramatically different than Fontallard's but extremely close to Leprince's, particularly in the faces of the figures depicted. A fascinating and intriguing album that appears to be a political allegory with the theater as backdrop and Harlequin as character in the political events in France 1791-1826. The fact that the album was published, without publisher or artist attribution, in Belgium rather than France strongly suggests fear of running afoul of French press censorship laws of the era. Auguste-Xavier Leprince (1799-1826), French painter and lithographer, 'was the son and pupil of the painter and lithographer Anne-Pierre Leprince and the elder brother of the painters Robert-Leopold Leprince (1800-47) and Gustave Leprince (1810-37). Leprince recieved a medal at his first Salon of 1819 for one of six entries, five of which wew landscapes of 17th century Dutch inspiration, which came possibly via the work of Jean-Louis Demarne. Leprince quickly learnt to vary the contents of his paintings: at the Salon of 1822 his entries included three Paris street scenes, three portraits, and two scenes on board a frigate. His numerous Paris street scenes usually depicted some well-known contemporary event.In the last year of his short life Leprince showed himself to be a sensitive watercolour painter and lithographer." (Grove Dictionary of Art). "G. Carayon was a 19th century French bookbinder. Yvan Christ, in an article in L'Estampille, describes his activity: 'Around 1875, bookbinder Carayon became an art cartonnage [paper over boards] bookbinder, featuring popular bindings in white velin boards and enhanced watercolors, using silk, cloth, leather, and Japon paper. The success of his cartonnage bindings was great. But bindings he made in a more conventional manner should not be forgotten'" (Trans. from Devaux, Dix Siecles de Reliere, p. 351). The Plates: 1. 1re. Parade. - 1791. Columbine délaisée. 2. 2e. Parade. - 1795. L'Orateur Populaire. 3. 3e. Parade. - 1795. Le Directorien. 4. 4e. Parade. - 1799. - Le 18 Brumaire. 5. 5e. Parade. - 1800. - Le Grenadier des Consuls. 6. 6e. Parade. - 1808. - Le Chambellan. 7. 7e. Parade. - 1814. - Le Marquis de Bergame. 8. 8e. Parade. - 1815. Le Champ de Mai. 9. 9e. Parade. - 1820. Tartufe. 10. 10e. Parade. - 1823. Le Diner. 11. 11e. Parade. - 1825. La Clôture. 12. 12e. Parade. - 1826. Le Congréganiste.

The Disadvantages of Traveling by Stagecoach Illustrated in Twelve Highly Amusing Lithographs LEPRINCE, Xavier. Inconvéniens d'un Voyage en Diligence. [The Disadvantages of Traveling by Stagecoach]. Douze Tableaux, Lithographiés par. Paris: Chez Gihaut Freres. et Sazerac et Duval, 1826]. First edition. Oblong folio (10 3/8 x 13 5/8 inches; 264 x 346 mm.) Twelve hand-colored lithographed plates. Lithography by Englemann. Some light foxing, mainly marginal except the first two plates. Publisher's quarter black roan over dark plum patterned boards, front cover lettered in gilt, smooth spine. Aside from the light foxing this is a near fine example. The inconvenient rigors of travel by coach are illustrated in twelve highly amusing plates. OCLC locates just five copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Morgan Library & Museum (NY, US); Stanford University Library (CA, US); Brown University (RI, US); University of Liverpool (UK), and Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). Auguste-Xavier Leprince (1799-1826), French painter and lithographer, 'was the son and pupil of the painter and lithographer Anne-Pierre Leprince and the elder brother of the painters Robert-Leopold Leprince (1800-47) and Gustave Leprince (1810-37). Leprince recieved a medal at his first Salon of 1819 for one of six entries, five of which were landscapes of 17th century Dutch inspiration, which came possibly via the work of Jean-Louis Demarne. Leprince quickly learnt to vary the contents of his paintings: at the Salon of 1822 his entries included three Paris street scenes, three portraits, and two scenes on board a frigate. His numerous Paris street scenes usually depicted some well-known contemporary event.In the last year of his short life Leprince showed himself to be a sensitive watercolour painter and lithographer, publishing a set of twelve lithographs entitled Inconvéniens d'un Voyage en Diligence" (Grove Dictionary of Art). Leprince was credited with inventing a process of aquatint engraving which imitated a sepia wash or Chinese ink. He used this process for a number of Russian costume plates published either singly or bound in sets. The Plates: 1. Comment j'ai perdu mon. coin? 2. Quand en n'a pas de memiore, il avoir des jambes! 3. La coie et la pluie, que c'est romantique. 4. Plaisantez vous? nous sommesa jeun depuis avant hier. 5. Cruels effets d'une digestion interrompue. 6. Dévouement forcé. 7. Pauvre bibi !! j'en mourrai .peut etre. 8. Voila ce que c'est que de ne pas mettre en régle. 9. Allons! Allons! Il faut partir. 10. Le courage à l'Epreuve. 11. Les amusements des gentils douaniers. 12. Les douceurs du Retour. Bobins III, 946; Lipperheide 3658.

The Disadvantages of Traveling by Stagecoach Illustrated in Twelve Highly Amusing Lithographs LEPRINCE, Xavier. Inconvéniens d'un Voyage en Diligence. [The Disadvantages of Traveling by Stagecoach]. Douze Tableaux, Lithographiés par M. Xavier Leprince. Paris: Chez Gihaut Freres. et Sazerac et Duval, 1826. First edition. Oblong folio (9 1/16 x 12 3/8 inches; 231 x 314 mm.) Publisher's original tan pictorial lithograph front wrapper (as title-page) and twelve hand-colored lithographed plates. Lithography by Englemann. Publisher's printed tan lithographed front wrapper, rear wrapper replaced. Housed in a fleece lined, quarter black morocco clamshell case, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments. A near fine copy, the plates are clean and the hand coloring is quite super. The inconvenient rigors of travel by coach are illustrated in twelve highly amusing plates. OCLC locates just five copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Morgan Library & Museum (NY, US); Stanford University Library (CA, US); Brown University (RI, US); University of Liverpool (UK), and Kunstbiblio Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). Auguste-Xavier Leprince (1799-1826), French painter and lithographer, 'was the son and pupil of the painter and lithographer Anne-Pierre Leprince and the elder brother of the painters Robert-Leopold Leprince (1800-47) and Gustave Leprince (1810-37). Leprince recieved a medal at his first Salon of 1819 for one of six entries, five of which were landscapes of 17th century Dutch inspiration, which came possibly via the work of Jean-Louis Demarne. Leprince quickly learnt to vary the contents of his paintings: at the Salon of 1822 his entries included three Paris street scenes, three portraits, and two scenes on board a frigate. His numerous Paris street scenes usually depicted some well-known contemporary event.In the last year of his short life Leprince showed himself to be a sensitive watercolour painter and lithographer, publishing a set of twelve lithographs entitled Inconvéniens d'un Voyage en Diligence" (Grove Dictionary of Art). Leprince was credited with inventing a process of aquatint engraving which imitated a sepia wash or Chinese ink. He used this process for a number of Russian costume plates published either singly or bound in sets. The Plates: 1. Comment j'ai perdu mon. coin? 2. Quand en n'a pas de memiore, il avoir des jambes! 3. La coie et la pluie, que c'est romantique. 4. Plaisantez vous? nous sommesa jeun depuis avant hier. 5. Cruels effets d'une digestion interrompue. 6. Dévouement forcé. 7. Pauvre bibi !! j'en mourrai .peut etre. 8. Voila ce que c'est que de ne pas mettre en régle. 9. Allons! Allons! Il faut partir. 10. Le courage à l'Epreuve. 11. Les amusements des gentils douaniers. 12. Les douceurs du Retour. Bobins III, 946; Lipperheide 3658.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Paris, chez Nepveu (de l'imprimerie de Firmin Didot), 1822. In-8 oblong de : 1 frontispice gravé orné d'une vignette, 154 pp., 24 pl. hors-texte aquarellées. Qq. discrètes piqûres. Conservé dans sa brochure bleue d'origine. Coin supérieur droit de la brochure déchiré sans manque. Brochure de l'époque. 240 x 160 mm. --- Cinquième édition, entièrement refondue et considérablement augmentée, rare comme le sont les livres de l'enfance. Gumuchan et Cie, Les Livres de l'enfance du XVe au XIXe siècle, 3766 ; National Union Catalog (NUC pre-1956), 280:273. Les précédentes sont si rares que celle-ci est généralement considérée comme l'originale. Gumuchian ne cite d'ailleurs que la présente édition. Exceptionnel exemplaire dont l'ensemble des 25 gravures sur cuivre à l'aquatinte du peintre Xavier Leprince ont été rehaussées à l'époque à l'aquarelle, La gravure ornant le feuillet de titre représente trois garçonnets environnés des attributs de différents jeux : raquette, cerceau, cerf-volant, etc. Chaque estampe illustre plusieurs garçons en habit bourgeois s'adonnant à un ou deux jeux différents : Toupie et Sabot, Patins, Traîneaux et Glissade, Ballon, Barres, La Balle empoisonnée, La marelle et la Balle au mur, le Cheval fondu, etc. Les exemplaires ordinaires présentent les planches en noir. L'exemplaire Gumuchian possédait seulement « 3 planches en couleurs et 22 tirées en sépia ». Exemplaire conservé tel que paru, broché, non rogné, à grandes marges, la plupart des feuilles non encore découpées. D'après nos recherches, parmi les Institutions publiques françaises, seule la B.n.F. et le Fonds Pollès de la Bibliothèque de Rennes possèderaient cette rare édition. Aucun exemplaire complet et conservé dans une reliure de l'époque n'est passé sur le marché international depuis plus de trente ans. /// Paris, chez Nepveu (de l'imprimerie de Firmin Didot), 1822. Oblong 8vo [240 x 160 mm] of: 1 engraved frontispiece decorated with a vignette, 154 pp., 24 water-colored pl. out of pagination. A few rare foxing. Preserved in its original blue wrappers. Right upper corner torn without loss. Contemporary wrappers. --- Fifth edition, entirely reedited and considerably enlarged, rare like all the childhood books. Gumuchan et Cie, Les Livres de l'enfance du XVe au XIXe siècle, 3766; National Union Catalog (NUC pre-1956), 280:273. The previous editions are so rare that this one is generally considered as the original one. Besides, Gumuchian only quotes the present edition. An exceptional copy of which the set of 25 aquatint copper-engravings by Xavier Leprince have been contemporary enhanced with watercolor. The engraving decorating the title leaf represents three young boys surrounded by the attributes of various games: racket, hoop, kite, etc. Each engraving pictures some boys in bourgeois clothes giving themselves up to one or two different games: Roller skate, Sledges and Slides, Ball, The Dodge ball, The hopscotch and the Palm game, etc. Ordinary copies present the plates in black. Gumuchian's copy included only "3 plates in color and 22 printed in sepia". A copy preserved as published, untrimmed in its original wrappers, wide-margined, mostly uncut. According to our researches among French public Institutions, only the B.n.F. and the Fonds Pollès at the Bibliothèque de Rennes would own this rare edition. No complete copy preserved in its contemporary binding has been recorded on the international public market for over thirty years.