Engraving is one of the oldest forms of printed artistic expression. For centuries, it has allowed artists to translate their gesture onto paper through remarkably precise techniques. Each engraved line, each inking, and each pass through the press gives birth to a print where material and light play an essential role.
Our gallery brings together a selection of original engravings by modern, contemporary, and ancient artists. Etching, drypoint, burin, aquatint, mezzotint, or wood engraving: each technique has its own language, texture, and character, offering works of great visual richness.
Published in limited editions and often numbered or signed, these prints are appreciated as much for their quality of execution as for their artistic value. They bear witness to demanding craftsmanship where the intervention of the printer's hand remains as essential as that of the artist.
Collecting an engraving means acquiring an original work that carries the memory of a gesture, a technique, and an artistic tradition passed down through generations.
items: 12
Etching
Very fine impression on old azure laid paper, numbered and signed with the monogram in pencil
Edition of 75 copies
Blind stamp: H. Petiet, publisher Paris. (photo attached)
Sheet dimensions: 22 x 29.5 cm. Illustration dimensions: 13.5 x 20 cm
Very good condition. The work has undergone professional restoration.The work is sold unframed.
Etching
Sheet dimensions: 25.5 x 34 cm. Illustration dimensions: 13 x 19.5 cm
Very fine impression from a later reprint on ivory laid paper. From the collection of H.M. Petiet (Lugt 5031) (photo attached)
In very good condition.The work is sold unframed.
Original engraving, signed in the plate at the bottom center
Edition: 6,000 copies
Sheet dimensions: 33 x 26 cm. Image dimensions: 24.5 x 19 cm
Published by "Les Heures Claires"
Printed by Jacquet & Taricco
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Michler & Löpsinger 1107.
In very good condition.
The work is sold unframed.
Original engraving signed in the plate at the bottom center
Edition: 6000 copies
Sheet dimensions: 33 x 26 cm. Illustration dimensions: 24.5 x 19 cm
Published by "Les Heures Claires"
Printed by Jacquet & Taricco
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Michler & Löpsinger 1064.
In very good condition.
The artwork is sold unframed.
Original engraving, signed in the plate at the bottom center
Edition: 6000 copies
Sheet dimensions: 33 x 26 cm. Illustration dimensions: 24.5 x 19 cm
Published by "Les Heures Claires"
Printed by Jacquet & Taricco
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Michler & Löpsinger 1123.
In very good condition.
The work is sold unframed.
Original engraving signed in the plate in the lower center
Edition: 6000 copies
Sheet dimensions: 33 x 26 cm. Illustration dimensions: 24.5 x 19 cm
Published by "Les Heures Claires"
Printed by Jacquet & Taricco
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Michler & Löpsinger 1106.
In very good condition.
The work is sold unframed.
Original engraving, hand-signed and numbered in pencil
Sheet size: 56 x 76 cm. Image size: 39 x 58 cm
Edition of 320 copies
Published by La Vision Nouvelle
Printed by Atelier Rigal
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Catalogue raisonné: Michler & Löpsinger 488.
Very good condition. The work has undergone professional restoration.
The artwork is sold unframed.
Original etching, engraving, and drypoint, on laid paper, with partial "foolscap" watermark
Very fine impression from the artist's lifetime, corresponding to the third state (of six) according to New Hollstein
Sheet dimensions: 27.4 × 23.2 cm. Plate dimensions: 26 × 22 cm
BIBLIOGRAPHY: The Illustrated Bartsch: Rembrandt Harmensz. Van Rijn, Bartsch, Hollstein 44; A Catalogue of Rembrandt's Etchings, Hind, 120; Dutch and Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts: Rembrandt van Rijn, New Hollstein 125; Etchings by Rembrandt from the Collection of Felix Somary, Stogdon 12.
In very good condition.
The artwork is sold unframed.
Original hand-colored etching on Arches vellum paper
Hand-signed by Marc Chagall "M.Ch.". Monogram in pencil in the lower right margin and annotation in the lower left. Signature also present in the plate (engraved signature)
Sheet dimensions: 53.6 × 39 cm. Image dimensions: 29.2 × 22.8 cm
Edition: 100 copies
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Cramer, P. Marc Chagall: The Illustrated Books: Catalogue Raisonné. Patrick Cramer, Geneva, 1995. pgs. 110 & 112. no. 30.
In very good condition.
The artwork is sold unframed.
Carborundum etching and aquatint in colors on Arches paper
Signed in pencil by Joan Miró in the lower right
Numbered in pencil in the lower left margin
Edition: 75 copies
Sheet dimensions: 94.6 x 69.8 cm
Printed by Morsang, Paris
Published by Maeght éditeur, Paris.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: 1. Dupin, Jacques. Miró Engraver, vol. II 1961 - 1973, Rizzoli International Publications: NY, 1989. Listed and illustrated in the catalogue raisonné no. 506 on page 154. 506 on page 154. 2. Miró: l'œuvre graphique, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Fondation Gulbenkian: Lisbon, 1974. Listed in the catalogue raisonné no. 149 on page 46. 149 on page 46.
In very good condition.
The artwork is sold unframed.
Etching, aquatint, drypoint, and burin on laid paper
Plate No. 77 from the series "Los Caprichos" (The Caprices), 1st edition, 1799
Very fine impression printed in light sepia ink
Edition of 300 copies
Sheet dimensions: 30.2 x 19.8 cm. Image dimensions: 21.5 x 15.1 cm
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Listed as No. 112 in Tomás Harris's catalogue raisonné.
In very good condition.The work is sold unframed.
Woodcut printed on laid paper
Sheet dimensions: 39.3 x 28.8 cm. Illustration dimensions: 39 x 28.4 cm
This engraving belongs to Dürer's early mature period and already demonstrates his remarkable mastery of composition, detail, and narration. The artist deploys a great graphic richness, characteristic of the masterpieces of German Renaissance engraving.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: Bartsch 120; Meder 236.
Very beautiful impression in very good condition.
The artwork is sold unframed.
