Auguste Delatre - Soir d'Automne or Autumn Evening

Soir d'Automne (Autumn Evening)

Auguste Delatre's original etching and drypoint Soir d'Automne (Autumn Evening) hails from the 1859 issue of "L'Artist". In 1859, the French artist, Auguste Delatre contributed two original etchings to the Paris publication, "L'Artiste", these were "Soir d'Automne" and "Solitude". "Soir d'Automne", in particular, displays one of Auguste Delatre's greatest gifts to nineteenth century printmaking. Plate Tone (or, the 'mobile etching' technique, as he termed it) was a method of actually painting ink onto the plate and wiping it to achieve strong tonal values. Each impression was therefore unique. This method directly influenced the rebirth of the monotype in France by such artists as Edgar Degas. This impression bears the publisher's name "L'Artiste" in the upper margin, and the artist's name, "Aug. Delatre pinx. et sc", the title "Soir d'Automne", & the printer's details "Imp. Aug. Delatre"in the lower margin as published by L’Artiste" in Paris at the date stated. It is a fine, original example of the etched and landscape art created by the French artist, Auguste Delatre.

Soir d'Automne (Autumn Evening)

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Auguste Delatre (Paris, 1822 - 1907)
#	Image	Title & Artist	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01-		Soir d'Automne (Autumn Evening) by Auguste Delatre	Original Etching	1859	Signed and dated in the plate by Auguste Delatre and bearing the publisher's name in the upper margin, and the artist's name, "Aug. Delatre pinx. et sc", title "Soir d'Automne", & the printer's details "Imp. Aug. Delatre"in the lower margin as published by "L'Artiste", Paris	Sold
02.-		Le Matin (Morning) 'View of a Duck Pond' by Auguste Delatre	Original Etching	1865	Signed and dated in the plate by Auguste Delatre to the lower right. Printed by Auguste Delatre in Paris. Bearing the 'Societe des Aqua-Fortistes' watermark as published by A. Cadart & Luquet for "Eaux-Fortes Modernes".	Sold

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#	Image	Title & Artist	Artist Info	Medium	Date	Notes	-
01.-		Avant L'Orage, Paysage (Before the Storm, Landscape) by Francois Jules Collignon	Francois Jules Collignon 'F. J. Collignon' (Paris, c. 1800 - 1850)	Original Lithograph	1844	Signed by Francois Jules Collignon in the stone to the lower left and bearing the publisher's blindstamp and name, "L'Artiste", the text, "Salon de 1844", the artist's name, "F. Jules Collignon pinx. et del.", & the printer's details, "Peequereau imp." along the upper & lower margins.	Sold
02.-		Bords de la Somme, Picardie (Banks of the Somme, Picardy) by Jules Dupre	Jules Dupre (Nantes, 1811 - L'Isle-Adam, 1889)	Original Lithograph	1836	Signed in the stone to the lower left with Jules Dupre's 'J. D.' monogramme and bearing the publisher's name, "L'Artiste", the artist's name, "Jules Dupre", the title, & the printer's details, "Lith. de Bernard et Frey." along the upper & lower margins.	Sold
03.-		Gorges d’Apremont Gorges of Apremont by Hector Martin	Hector Martin (France. c. 1825 -1846)	Original Lithograph	1846	bearing the publisher's name, "L'Artiste", the title, the artist's name, "H. Martin pinx. et lith.", & the printer's details "Imp. Bertauts, Paris" along the upper & lower margins .
04.-		Le Soir dans les Bruyeres (Evening in the Moors) by Charles Joshua Chaplin	Charles Joshua Chaplin (Les Andelys, Eure, France, 1825 - Paris, 1891)	Original Lithograph	1849	Bearing the publisher's blindstamp and name, "L'Artiste", the text, "Salon 1849", the title, the artist's name, "Ch. Chaplin pinx", & the printer's details, "Imp. Bertauts, Paris" along the upper & lower margins.
05.-		Les Femmes Artistes, Madame E. de B. (Women Artists, Mrs. E. de B., wife of Charles Edouard de Beaumont) by Paul Gavarni	Gavarni, 'Hippolyte Guillaume Suplice Chavalier', 'Paul Gavarni' (Paris, 1804 - Auteuil, 1866)	Original Lithograph	1856	Bearing the full publisher's name, "L'Artiste", the title, the artist's name, "Gavarni", & the printer's details, "Imp. Bertauts, r. Cadet, II" along the upper & lower margins.
06.-		Metairie Bourbonnaise (Small Farm, Bourbonnaise) by Hector Martin	Hector Martin (France. c. 1825 -1846)	Original Lithograph	1848	Bearing the publisher's name, "L'Artiste", the title, the artist's name, "Hector Martin", & the printer's details "Imp. Bertauts, Paris" along the upper & lower margins.
07.-		Nymphe bocagere (Woodland Nymph) by Charles Joshua Chaplin designed by Philippe Auguste Jean	Charles Joshua Chaplin (Les Andelys, Eure, France, 1825 - Paris, 1891) designed by Philippe Auguste Jeanron (Boulogne, 1808 - Paris, 1877)	Original Lithograph	1851	Bearing the publisher's name, "L'Artiste", the title, the artists' names, "Chaplin d'apres Jeanron", & the printer's details, "Imp. Bertauts, Paris" along the upper & lower margin.
08.-		Pecheur Champenois (Fisherman of Champagne) by Hector Martin	Hector Martin (France. c. 1825 -1846)	Original Lithograph	1848	bearing the publisher's name, "L'Artiste" in the upper margin and the title, the artist's name, "Hector Martin", & the printer's details "Imp. Bertauts, r. st. Marc 14" along the lower margin.
09.-		Soir d'Automne (Autumn Evening) by Auguste Delatre	Auguste Delatre (Paris, 1822 - 1907)	Original Etching and Drypoint with Plate Tone	1859	Signed and dated in the plate by Auguste Delatre and bearing the artist's name, "Aug. Delatre pinx. et sc", title, & the printer's details "Imp. Aug. Delatre"in the lower margin.	Sold
10.-		Souvenir de Hollande (Remembrance of Holland) by Theodore Valerio	Theodore Valerio (Herserange, France, 1819 - Vichy, 1879)	Original Lithograph	1844	Signed and dated in the stone by Theodore Valerio to the lower right and bearing the publisher's name, "L'Artiste", the title, the artist's name, "Valerio pinx. et lith.", & the printer's details, "Imprime par Auguste Bry a Paris" along the lower margin.
11.-		Zingari, Lombardie Venitienne (Gypsies, Lombardy-Venetia) by Armand Leleux	Armand Hubert Simon Leleux 'Armand Leleux' (Paris, 1818 - 1885)	Original Lithograph	1845	Bearing the publisher's name, "L'Artiste", the text, "Salon de 1845", the title, the artist's name, "Armand Leleux pinx.", & the printer's details, "Imp. Bertauts" along the upper and lower margins.

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Title:	Soir d'Automne (Autumn Evening)
Artist:	Delatre, Auguste (Paris, 1822 - 1907)
Date:	1859
Medium:	Original Etching and Drypoint with Plate Tone
Publisher:	L'Artiste, Paris
Note:	Auguste Delatre fills an important role in nineteenth century French art, both as a creative etcher and engraver and as one of the greatest artist's printers of any era. After Auguste Delatre learned to etch and print under the instructions of Charles Jacque and Louis Marvy he set up his own studio in Paris in 1848. Auguste Delatre helped to found the Societe des Aqua fortistes in 1862. Two years later Whistler and Seymour Haden convinced Auguste Delatre to come to London where he taught etching techniques at the South Kensington Museum for several years. Auguste Delatre's French studio was destroyed in the siege of Paris (1870) and he again returned to London for a period of six years. In 1876, Auguste Delatre reopened an etching studio in Montmarte.
	In both Paris and London, Auguste Delatre instructed many great artists on printing techniques and published an influential treatise on this subject. The artists who requested him to print their etched plates reads like a 'who's who' of nineteenth century art. Corot, Adolph Appian, James McNeill Whistler, Charles Meryon, Edouard Manet, Sir Francis Seymour Haden, Theodule Augustin Ribot, Charles Francois Daubigny, Felicien Rops and Felix Bracquemond all pressed for his advice and skills. Auguste Delatre's international stature as a leading printer owed much to his reintroduction of 'plate tone' -- a method of creating tonal values within etching through artistically back wiping the inked plate before printing. In particular, Rembrandt had previously used this technique to great effect. Auguste Delatre was also one of the first European artists to discover and promote the revolutionary art of the Japanese woodcut.
	To no surprise Auguste Delatre's own etchings and engravings are brilliant specimens of his vast skills. In "Soir d'Automne" etching, drypoint and extensive plate tone combine to create a superb image of a silent landscape under the setting sun. This famous etching is sometimes referred to under the alternate title, Solitude.
	Soir d'Automne (Autumn Evening): Auguste Delatre's original etching, Soir d'Automne (Autumn Evening was commissioned in 1859 for the French art journal, L'Artiste, France's foremost nineteenth century publisher of artistic lithographs, etchings, & engravings since its inception in 1831. This impression is signed and dated in the plate by Auguste Delatre and bears the publisher's name in the upper margin, and also bears the artist's name, "Aug. Delatre pinx. et sc", the title "Soir d'Automne", & the printer's details "Imp. Aug. Delatre"in the lower margin as published by L’Artiste, Peinture - Sculpture - Architecture, Philosophie-Romans-Voyages-Theatre, Redacteur en Chef Arsene Houssaye, Nouvelle, Serie - Tome VIII, Dix-Neuvieme Annee, Paris Aux Bureaux de L'Artiste, Rue Vivienne, 55, MDCCCLIX (1859). This original etching is listed under the table Des Matieres, Septembre, Octobre, Novembre, December, Nouvelle Serie - Tome VIII, Gravures, page 216, Troisieme Livraison, as Soir D'Automne, de M. Aug. Delatre. The table of contents also lists another etching by Delatre in this volume, See: Primiere Liavriason, Solitude (eau-forte) de M. Auguste Delatre, The Biblioteque Nationale de France contains an impression of this original etching and drypoint in its permanent collection, Ref # 1859 (Nouv SER, T8).
	L'Artiste, Paris (1831 - 1904): The Paris art journal, L'Artiste was one of the most-long lasting literary reviews encompassing the visual arts, literature, and music. It is considered by many a most important historical record of French art of the nineteenth century. Founded and directed by Achille Ricourt, this art journal published its first issue in February of 1831, under the title of, "L'Artiste. Journal de la Litterature et des Beaux-Arts" at the address, Rue de Seine-Saint-Germain, 39. Its first vignette, created by Tony Johannot depicted a painter, a sculptor, a writer and a musician accompanied by two women singing. During its long publishing history, the journal was edited by Achille Ricourt (founder/director), Arsene Houssaye (first editor in chief), a post that was also held by, Edouard Houssaye, Auguste de Vaucelle, Theophile Gautier, and others. Each volume consisted of reproductive and most importantly, original prints in the medium of lithography, etching, engraving, and other graphic mediums created by contemporary French artists such as, Paul Delaroche, Tony Johannot, Celestin-Francois Nanteuil, Francois Jules Collignon, Jules Dupre, Hector Martin, Charles Joshua Chaplin, Paul Gavarni, Auguste Delatre, Armand Hubert Simon Leleux, Charles Francois Daubigny, E. Delacroix, Theodore Valerio and many other important artists of the times. "Soir d'Automne" by Auguste Delatre is a striking example of the etched art commissioned by L'Artiste* in 1859. L'Artiste* published art reviews and literary works by art critics and writers such as, Pierre Jules Theophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire, Honore de Balzac, A. Houssaye, A. Dumas, and others. L'Artiste later absorbed the "Revue de Paris", another important French literary magazine founded by Louis Desire Vernon in 1829. By the time of its demise in 1904, L'Artiste had published a total of seventy two issues.
	Plate Tone (or, the 'mobile etching' technique, as Auguste Delatre termed it) was a method of actually painting ink onto the plate and wiping it to achieve strong tonal values. Each impression was therefore unique.
Size:	5 1/4 X 8 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
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Condition:	Printed on wove paper and with large margins as published in Paris by "L'Artiste" in 1859. Signed and dated in the plate by Auguste Delatre and bearing the publisher's name in the upper margin, and the artist's name, "Aug. Delatre pinx. et sc", title "Soir d'Automne", & the printer's details "Imp. Aug. Delatre"in the lower margin. Containing small tears and slight staining along the outer margins else a richly printed impression with full tonal values and in good condition throughout. "Soir d'Automne" represents a prime, original example of the influential nineteenth century etched art of Auguste Delatre.
Subject:	Auguste Delatre, "Soir d,Automne" (Autumn Evening), "L'Artiste", Plate Tone or, the 'mobile etching' technique, Original Etching and Drypoint with Plate Tone, Whistler and Seymour Haden, alternate title, Solitude.
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