PROVENANCE
Prints and a Few Drawings from Great Collections of the Past
  1. Master MR, Christ on the Cross
  2. Dürer, St. Bartholomew
  3. Dürer, Christ Before Caiaphas
  4. Raimondi, Philosophy
  5. Raimondi, Façade with Caryatids
  6. Beham, Job Conversing
  7. Beham, Satyr Sounding a Horn
  8. Beham, Peasant Couple Walking
  9. Caraglio, Martyrdom of St. Paul
  10. Aldegrever, Standard Bearer
  11. Pencz, Feeding the Hungry
  12. Pencz, Artemisia Preparing
  13. Falconetto, Tomb Surmounted
  14. Claesz, St. Peter Seated
  15. Treu, Noble Dancers
  16. Master FP, Hercules Killing
  17. Brun, February
  18. Solis, Arithmetria
  19. de Bruyn, The Circumcision
  20. Sadeler, Virgin and Child
  21. Goltzius, A Young Man
  22. Matham, The Planets
  23. Brizio, Extensive Landscape
  24. van de Velde, Fête Villageoise
  25. van de Velde, Backgammon
  26. van Uyttenbroek, Tobias
  27. van Uyttenbroek, Bacchus
  28. Rembrandt, The Small Lion Hunt
  29. Hollar, Woman with Headdress
  30. Saftleven, Dutch Peasant
  31. Ostade, Bust of a Peasant
  32. Stoop, A Grazing Horse
  33. Fyt, Set of Animals
  34. Bega, The Three Drinkers
  35. Anonymous, Landscape
  36. Nanteuil, Charles Benoise
  37. Nanteuil, Cardinal Mazarin
  38. Nanteuil, Pierre Seguier
  39. van Vliet, St. Jerome Sitting
  40. Cossin, Ornament Design
  41. Sirani, St. Eustace
  42. Somer, Hagar and Ishmael
  43. Daullé, La Muse Clio
  44. Tiepolo, The Holy Family
  45. MacArdell, Hannah, Mrs. Horneck
  46. Laurie, Elizabeth, Dutchess
  47. Denon, Village Scene
  48. Charlet, Les Français
  49. Pieraccini, Holy Family
  50. Daumier, Y n’y a rien comm’
  51. Daubigny, Les Ruines du Chateau
  52. Daubigny, Lever de Lune
  53. Meryon, Le Petit Pont
  54. Rops, La Poupée du Satyre
  55. Whistler, Old Hungerford Bridge
  56. Legros, Un Coin de Rivière
  57. Buhot, Frontispice
  58. Forain, La Rencontre
  59. Pennell, Hampton Court Palace
  60. Delâtre, Silhouette de Femme

51. Charles-François Daubigny
(1817-1878)
Les Ruines du Chateau de Crémieux

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Daubigny, Les Ruines du Chateau

Les Ruines du Chateau de Crémieux

Other Images:

Etching, roulette and « procédé à la cravate », 1850, 120 x 195 mm., Delteil 77 i/ii. Exceedingly fine impression on chine-appliqué with large margins. The scene is a bit unusual for Daubigny: the ruins are seen in a rocky terrain with few trees, storm clouds gather overhead, and a horseman, followed by a dog, gallops along a rude road in the general direction of the castle. The "procédé à la cravate" was a technique invented by Daubigny which involved pressing his silk tie onto the etching ground and rubbing it, producing a fine-grained texture that might be called silk-tie aquatint. The Château de Crémieux is in the Izère region east of Lyons.

Provenance:
Marquis Ph. de Chennevières (Lugt 2072 and 2073). It is most unusual to find this stamp on a print, as Chennevières was noted for his collection of drawings, so vast and important that Lugt accords over two pages to the collector and his collection. Charles Philippe, Marquis de Chennevières-Pointel (1820-1899) was a scholar and historian of art, Director of the Beaux-Arts and author of a variety of art studies as well as of his own Souvenirs which contained valuable information and opinions on his contemporaries. His drawing collection contained sheets by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Raphael, Goltzius and Rubens, but he was above all a patriot and protagonist of French art. He sold privately, and at public auction, some of his greatest drawings (but refused an offer from a German museum), but kept intact his collection of drawings by French artists, which was sold only after his death. There is no mention in Lugt of any prints, but the stamp on this one is unmistakable.