WITH WORKS BY ANNIBALE CARRACCI, AMONG OTHERS

Recueil De 283 Estampes Gravées à l’Eau forte par les plus habiles Peintres du tems, d'Après Les Desseins des Grands Maitres, que possedoit autrefois M. Jabach, Et qui depuis ont passé au Cabinet du Roy. A Paris, Chez Joullain, Quay de la Megisserie, á la Ville de Rome, 1754.

Exceptional set of 43 etchings. Measurements of the engravings, around: 28.3 x 40.5 cm / 11.14 x 15.94 in. Paper measurements: 35 x 50.5 cm / 13.77 x 19.88 in. The numbers 39, 40, 41, 42 and 43, mounted on papers of the same size. With an old parchment binding, restored. Former collection Ángel María Zuloaga (1885 - 1975), a pioneer of national aeronautics. (On his life, read the next two lots)

It is group “C” of the collection of 283 etchings edited by Everhard Jabach in his Recueil De 283 Estampes Gravées à l'Eau forte…, in Paris in 1754, a monumental complex made up of six groups identified by letters, from A to E. Compared with the complete copy belonging to the Getty Research Institute Library (1), our collection lacks the “2C” engraving, while it has an unnumbered first engraving that does not appear on the Getty R. Institute copy. The translation of the title gives an account of the origin of this selection: “Collection of 283 etchings by the most skilled painters of the time, based on the designs of the great masters, previously owned by Mr. Jabach and since then they have passed into the king's cabinet”. Our group has mostly works by Annibale Carracci (Bologna, 1560 - Rome, 1609), an Italian painter and engraver of the Baroque, belonging to the current of Roman-Bolognese classicism. We also observe works by his cousin Ludovico Carracci (Bologna, 1555 - 1619), and by Domenico Campagnola (Venice? Ca. 1500 - Padua, 1564), Titian (Veneto, ca. 1488 - Venice, 1576), Giovanni Francesco Grimaldi , called il Bolognese (Bologna, ca. 1606 - Rome, 1680), and Paul Bril (Antwerp, 1554 - Rome, 1626). All representatives of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque school, including Pau Brie who, although Flemish, lived his entire life in Rome.

Regarding the images, the common factor is the forest, so dear to the baroque landscape. In this area we observe religious and classically inspired scenes, as well as others referring to different country settings, with workers, horsemen, distant cities, mills, Roman ruins, castles, bucolic compositions in which eroticism is not lacking in several of them.

This magnificent undertaking was carried out by the German banker, art lover and great collector Everhard Jabach (Cologne, 1618-Paris, 1695) who, already installed in Paris, commissioned the edition of his collection of drawings. The engravers began in 1666 but the task lasted beyond his death, finally being published in 1754. Among the French engravers who worked on this publication, in our group we read the signatures of Jean-Baptiste Corneille (1649-1695), Michel Corneille (1642-1708), Jean Baptiste Massé (1687-1767), Jean Pesne (1623-1700) and Jacques Rousseau (1630-1693).

Notes:

1. SEE