Norblin de la Gourdaine (1745-1830) Man in Profile to the Right XIX Velin Poland

Description: Norblin de la Gourdaine (1745-1830) Man in Profile to the Right XIX Velin Poland The description of this item has been automatically translated. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us. 4806-8R465 I offer you this 19th century engraving: NORBLIN DE LA GOURDAINE (1745-1830): Seller of rat poison. Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine (1745-1830) was an artist of French origin born in Misy-sur-Yonne in 1745 and who died in Paris in 1830. I have the honor of introducing to you this painter, designer and caricaturist who has his place among the greatest. These first works are dated 1763. Around 1769 he entered as an apprentice with Francesco Casanova, then he joined the Academy of Painting and Sculpture directed by Van Loo and Joseph Marie Vien. Our artist loves to travel and we find him in Belgium, England and Germany where he is looking for a patron. In 1772 he met the Polish prince Adam Kazimiez Czartoryski and entered his service. In 1790 he settled in Warsaw where he acquired a reputation as a Master and became first painter to King Stanislaus II of Poland who ennobled him. He founded an art school there during the same period. It was in Warsaw that he had the idea of finding Rembrandt's technical secrets. He therefore began to study and analyse the prints he could collect, then he began to imitate them, manipulating the effects of shadows and highlights. So much so that from each of them there remained up to six and eight states. In Poland Norblin de la Gourdaine has no need to negotiate engravings, so these are artist's experiments for his own pleasure, Polish prints are consequently very rare. Among his very close students we find Heinrich Nether (1760-1819). Nether's engraved works are sometimes attributed to his master because they are so close technically. The political events in Poland, already fighting against Russia, gave him the opportunity to create works that are powerful testimonies of the revolts, battles, historical portraits and this up to the massacre of Praga in 1794 which saw 20,000 Polish civilians perish at the hands of Russian soldiers overcome by blood intoxication. Some say that Norblin de la Gourdaine took up arms to defend his adopted country. In 1804 he returned to France, taking with him all his engraved copper plates, including those of Nether. Finally, he works on his sketches that he had brought back from Poland and then on the Napoleonic battles. Rembrandt's signature on some of the plates remains a mystery. Norblin de la Gourdaine died in 1830. After his son, Louis, inherited the plates He died in 1870 at the age of 88. The Polish collector Dominik Witke-Jezewski (1862-1944) bought 82 plates by Norblin de la Gourdaine in Paris and Nether, which he donated with 40 engravings to the National Museum in Warsaw. The Germans, in cooperation with the Soviets, destroyed many of his many gifts to Warsaw museums. However, 71 copper plates survived and are still present in the National Museum. The paper of the prints seems to be a very interesting way to differentiate the prints. We must always remember that Norblain de la Gourdaine was trying to rediscover Rembrandt's technique and this necessarily involved testing papers! Rembrandt used a variety of media to print his prints: European papers, oriental papers, vellum and parchment. He thus obtained tests with very different effects. To study Norblin de la Gourdaine, it is therefore necessary to know well the person he was trying to imitate and the papers are a very important element in the final result. This artist, of great stature, is nowadays unjustly forgotten in his country of origin, but remains a myth in Poland. We are therefore offering you one of his creations, but the temporal positioning of this rare print on dark paper is, for me, late, like those presented in the vast majority of major Museums where Norblin de la Gourdaine was present from 1852 or 1853. The sheet is 35mm by 23mm, the engraving alone 27mm by 16mm. Superb and very rare piece. The political events in Poland, already fighting against Russia, gave him the opportunity to create works that are powerful testimonies of the revolts, battles, historical portraits and this up to the massacre of Praga in 1794 which saw 20,000 Polish civilians perish at the hands of Russian soldiers overcome by blood intoxication. Some say that Norblin de la Gourdaine took up arms to defend his adopted country. Rembrandt's signature on some of the plates remains a mystery. Norblin de la Gourdaine died in 1830. After his son, Louis, inherited the plates He died in 1870 at the age of 88. The Polish collector Dominik Witke-Jezewski (1862-1944) bought 82 plates by Norblin de la Gourdaine in Paris and Nether, which he donated with 40 engravings to the National Museum in Warsaw. The Germans, in Type Gravure Période XIXème et avant Quantité unitaire 1 Support Sur papier Unité de mesure m Genre Classicisme Caractéristiques Papier lin vergé Thème Personnage

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