Lot 7

(CHARLES NÈGRE) (1820-1880)

A portfolio titled Charles Nègre, Treize Hèliogravures 1854-1857.

Text by André Jammes. Complete with 13 hand-pulled photogravures printed from Nègre's original steel plates, including a cliché-verre; the images measuring from 2x2¼ to 28x18½ inches (5.1x5.7 to 71.1x47 cm.), the sheets from 19½x16 and 32 ¾x25½ inches (49.5x40.6 and 83.2x64.8 cm.), with the edition notation 84/100, in pencil, and the Atelier Saint-Prex's embossed logo in the margin; the 2 largest plates with printed titles and credits. Elephant folio-sized cloth box with a printed label; the tall 4to in wrappers with Jammes' historical notations and an additional plate Portrait d'Ingres (1844) laid in; contents loose, as issued; in the original shipping box. FROM AN EDITION OF 100 SETS. Genève, Switzerland: Atelier de Saint-Prex, 1982