Pivoines et Rhododendrons
- Catalogue number
-
SO 0093
- Artist
-
Jules Jacquemart
- Printer
-
Alfred Salmon
- Date
-
1862
- Dimensions [to plate mark]
-
215 x 150 mm
- Publication
-
L' oeuvre de Jules Jacquemart: Par Louis Gonse, Vols 1 and 2, Paris Gazette des Beaux-arts, 1876.
Subject
Floral still-life of Peonies and Rhododendrons. Both these plants, introduced to Europe from East Asia, were emblematic of the emerging European taste for Japanese material culture. The subject is depicted here using pictorial conventions largely derived from the photographs of Adolphe Braun (1812-1877). Braun was one of the first photographers to make photographs specifically intended as a visual reference for designers and ‘industrial artists’. His Fleurs photographiées of 1855 became an extremely popular source-book and also gained considerable currency amongst progressive painters. This re-purposing of Braun's photographs can be traced most clearly in the floral still-lives of Fantin-Latour, but is also a significant ingredient in Manet's pictorial language.
Signed in the plate: ‘Jules Jacquement’. Inscription top left, ‘No.4’. below the plate: 'J Jacquemart Inv. et Sculp., Gazette des Beaux-arts, Pivoines et Rhododendrons, Imp. A. Salmon. Paris.'
Printing
First published in Gazette des Beaux Arts, June 1875, opposite p.567. 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.
References
British Museum 1982,U.1286
