The Fishing Nets
23 cms x 27.5 cms (9.06 ins x 10.75 ins)
Signed in plate only lower left
Lot offered for sale by Saskatchewan NAC, Regina at the auction event "Canadian and International Prints and Photography" held on Sun, Sep 22, 2024.
Lot 256
Lot 256
Estimate: CAD $100 - $140
Realised: CAD $56
Realised: CAD $56
Lot description - from the online catalogue*
Provenance:
From the Gary Robertson Historical Print Collection (Regina). This print can also be found in the Museum of Art and History (Geneva).
Notes:
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince was born in 1734 in Metz, France. He began his study in Metz but as a teenage moved to Paris and became a leading student of Francois Boucher. In 1758 he started a five-year commissoin at the Imperial Palace, St. Petersburg, creating artworks for Catherine the Great. He retuned to Paris in 1763, and became a full member of the Academy of Painters and Sculptors in 1765. He is credited with being the first artist to use the aquatint technique for etched or engraved plate, and may have in fact invented the aquatint technique. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince die in Saint-Denis-du-Port, France, in 1781.
From the Gary Robertson Historical Print Collection (Regina). This print can also be found in the Museum of Art and History (Geneva).
Notes:
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince was born in 1734 in Metz, France. He began his study in Metz but as a teenage moved to Paris and became a leading student of Francois Boucher. In 1758 he started a five-year commissoin at the Imperial Palace, St. Petersburg, creating artworks for Catherine the Great. He retuned to Paris in 1763, and became a full member of the Academy of Painters and Sculptors in 1765. He is credited with being the first artist to use the aquatint technique for etched or engraved plate, and may have in fact invented the aquatint technique. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince die in Saint-Denis-du-Port, France, in 1781.
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(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Saskatchewan NAC auction house for permission to use.
(*) Text and/or Image might be subject matter of Copyright. Check with Saskatchewan NAC auction house for permission to use.