Ivorie et Celadons
- Catalogue number
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SO 0093
- Artist
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Jules Jacquemart
- Printer
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François Liénard
- Date
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1872
- Medium
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Etching
- Dimensions [to plate mark]
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230 x 127 mm
- Catalogues
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Gonse 337
- State
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Only published state
- Publication
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L' oeuvre de Jules Jacquemart: Par Louis Gonse, Vol 1, Paris Gazette des Beaux-arts, 1876
Subject
A still life depicting two glazed ceramic figures and an ivory panel, all of Japanese heritage. Together with Felix Bracquemond, James Tissot, Henri Fantin-Latour and other designers from the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, Jacquemart was was a founding member of the Societé du Jar-Ling and amongst the earliest European artists to valorise the aesthetics of Japanese artefacts in the European context in the 1860s - 1870s. The etching is notable for its melodramatic lighting, which seems to subvert the plate's overt intention of documenting examples of Japanese craft production.
Signed in the plate: ‘Jacquemart 1872’. Inscribed below the plate: Gazette des Beraux-arts, Ivorie et Celadons, J.Jacquemart Inv. et Sculp.'
Printing
First published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, March 1872. A number of Jacquemart's plates were subsequently re-published in L' oeuvre de Jules Jacquemart: Par Louis Gonse, Vols 1 and 2, Paris Gazette des Beaux-arts, 1876. L' oeuvre de Jules Jacquemart was published in a numbered edition of sixty. Ten examples of the edition included rarer proof etchings avant la lettre, before title and authorship details had been added by the publisher. It appears that the Gazette des Beaux-arts had retained a stock of proofs, lettered impressions and some of Jacquemart's plates, but it may also be correct, as Gonse infers in his text, that proof impressions were acquired from Jacquemart himself.
History
Purchased in a group of three etchings by Jacquemart from Ebay seller morganazb on 1 February 2026. Order no: 25-14156-71116
