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Original Antique Engraved Etching, 4to, dated 1758 within the plate, a single folio leaf measuring 11 x 17 inches, with the plate mark at 26 x 29 cm. "Commencement D'Orage (Beginning of the Storm)/ D'apres l'Original de Rembrandt; du Cabinet de Monsieur le Comte De Vence/Maréchal de Camp des armiés du Roy./ a Paris chez quai de Conti la 2.c porte Cochere apres la rue Guénégaud." After Rembrandt. Plate numbered 17 (in text )and 38 at top edge of print. [Last photo is provided for reference only and not included.] CONDITION: Very Good Plus, with several small areas of very light foxing, as seen. Would be handsome matted and framed.**Provenance of the original painting from which this print was adapted was from Claude Alexandre de Villeneuve, le Comte de Vence, ( French, 1724 - 1811) a decorated soldier and art collector of the early to mid eighteenth century, several oil paintings of which de Marcenay de Ghuy had access to. The scene is a Dutch landscape with a windmill, a river running into the foreground and rainstorm beginning in the distance while parts of the sky remain sunlit; more experimentation for the printmaker's experiments in chiaroscuro. The Count's coat of arms features at the bottom of the page. This was among the de Marcenay de Ghuy's prints published separately for sale and later incorporated into the book, circa 1780, hence the two different plate reference numbers. REF: Leblanc 52. British Museum etching reference no. 1840,0314.126. We will mail any prints well protected in a flat box. And please contact us if interested in multiple prints in order to save on postage. (AMJ)
Ref: ARTEN 9761
$150.00