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DORE (GUSTAVE)

Schätzpreis
1.000 £ - 1.500 £
ca. 1.268 $ - 1.902 $
Zuschlagspreis:
n. a.
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 14

DORE (GUSTAVE)

Schätzpreis
1.000 £ - 1.500 £
ca. 1.268 $ - 1.902 $
Zuschlagspreis:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

DORE (GUSTAVE) Metal stereotype plate for 'The Death of Agag' engraving in 'La Grande Bible de Tours', by E. Goebel after Doré, steel plate mounted on wooden block, in original box, with printed illustration mounted on lid, 248 x 200mm., [c.1866 or later] Fußnoten "And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal" (Samuel 15:33): a rare metal stereotype (their durability facilitating reprinting) for one of Doré's best-known Bible illustrations. "Some of his illustrations for the Bible or Dante's Inferno are permanently etched in the collective consciousness... 'Doré's Bible' would have a lasting effect on the revival of religious art in Europe in the last thirty years of the century. Never in the history of Christian art had the Bible been so lavishly and imaginatively illustrated, at the risk of causing offence to some... Almost every film about the Bible since The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ produced by Pathé in 1902 refers to his illustrations" (Musée d'Orsay website). The wooden block and box have signs of fire-damage, perhaps indicating why other plates seem not to have survived (two woodblocks for Don Quixote and La Fontaine were saved from being burned at Hachette, where it was apparently common practice to destroy matrices and plates until the 1960s).

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 14
Auktion:
Datum:
26.06.2019
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Tel: +44 20 7393 3900 Fax : +44 20 7393 3905 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

DORE (GUSTAVE) Metal stereotype plate for 'The Death of Agag' engraving in 'La Grande Bible de Tours', by E. Goebel after Doré, steel plate mounted on wooden block, in original box, with printed illustration mounted on lid, 248 x 200mm., [c.1866 or later] Fußnoten "And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before the Lord in Gilgal" (Samuel 15:33): a rare metal stereotype (their durability facilitating reprinting) for one of Doré's best-known Bible illustrations. "Some of his illustrations for the Bible or Dante's Inferno are permanently etched in the collective consciousness... 'Doré's Bible' would have a lasting effect on the revival of religious art in Europe in the last thirty years of the century. Never in the history of Christian art had the Bible been so lavishly and imaginatively illustrated, at the risk of causing offence to some... Almost every film about the Bible since The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ produced by Pathé in 1902 refers to his illustrations" (Musée d'Orsay website). The wooden block and box have signs of fire-damage, perhaps indicating why other plates seem not to have survived (two woodblocks for Don Quixote and La Fontaine were saved from being burned at Hachette, where it was apparently common practice to destroy matrices and plates until the 1960s).

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 14
Auktion:
Datum:
26.06.2019
Auktionshaus:
Bonhams London
London, Knightsbridge Montpelier Street Knightsbridge London SW7 1HH Tel: +44 20 7393 3900 Fax : +44 20 7393 3905 info@bonhams.com
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