Sale 2460 - Old Master Through Modern Prints, November 2, 2017

216 c EUGÈNE DELACROIX Rencontre de Cavaliers Maures . Etching on Chine appliqué , 1834. 203x271 mm; 8x10 3 / 4 inches, wide (full ?) margins. Edition of approximately only 20-30. A superb impression of this extremely scarce, early etching. This etching, commissioned by Alexandre Decamps for the album Le Musée, Revue du Salon de 1834 , is based on a painting Delacroix exhibited at the Salon in 1834. Only the deluxe edition of the Revue de Salon , approximately 20 to 30 copies, contained one of the original etchings. After the small deluxe edition, the etching was transferred to a lithographic stone ( pierre de report ), with text added, and the lithographic version was included in the regular edition of the Revue de Salon . The text on the lithographic version, which prints within 2 mm of the upper and lower border lines reads: Le Musée / Peint par Eug. Delacroix / transport et lith. Delaunois / Rencontre de Cavaliers Maures / (Tableau refusé au Salon) . Delteil 23. [4,000/6,000] 216A c JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES Feuille de quatre portraits: Katherine Anne (North) Lady Glenbervie, Sylvester (Douglas) Lord Glenbervie,The Honorable Frederic Sylvester Douglas and Frederic (North) Earl of Guildford . Lithograph, 1815-20. 465x362 mm; 18 3 / 8 x14 1 / 4 inches (overall), full margins. A superb impression of this extremely scarce, early lithograph, with the “impression” of the lithographic stone still distinct. We have found only one other impression at auction in the past 30 years. Delteil 2, 3, 4 and 5. [10,000/15,000] 216A