L'Angélus

L’Angélus

Dundee Art Galleries & Museum: 272-1987-311

Artist: Waltner, Charles Albert

Date: 1881

State: 1/3

Size: 45.1 x 52.7 cm

Medium: Etching

Alternative Title(s) The Angelus (after Jean-François Millet)
Details Etching. Artist’s proof. Large print on decent but thin paper, possibly Japan. Printsellers’ Association records it as ‘parchment’ and it was limited to 100 impressions. Unlettered but graphite signature ‘C.A. Waltner’ at bottom right. Also PSA stamp; circle with initials PL in centre. A lettered impression is in the National Trust Collection with the inscription ‘Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1881 by 17 Knoedler and Co. In the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington’.

Published by Emile Savary and declared on 1 November 1881. According to the PSA Artist’s Proofs on parchment (100 impressions) and Japanese paper (201 impressions) were issued at £25 and £15 each respectively.

Label on back; Thomas Murray & Sons, Art Dealers, 106 Nethergate, Dundee. Sole Partner James K. Foggie.
Description The etching is of Jean-François Millet’s (1814-1875 painting L’Angélus (1857/9, Musée d’Orsay, Paris). The scene depicts the two central figures reciting the Angelus, a prayer often said at the end of the working day.

Following Millet’s death there was a wave of resurgence of interest in his work including The Fine Art Society publishing Twenty Etchings and Woodcuts of Millet, with an introduction by William Ernest Henley, in facsimile in 1881 and French and English versions of Alfred Sensier’s biography Jean-François Millet, Peasant and Painter also in 1881.
Other Collections
  1. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
  2. British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings, London, England, UK
  3. Department of Prints and Drawings, The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA
  4. The Metropolitan Museum of Arts, New York, USA
References
  1. Emmanuel Bénézit, Dictionary of Artists. Paris, Gründ, 2006
  2. Rodney K. Engen, Dictionary of Victorian Engravers, Print Publishers and Their Works. Cambridge, Chadwyck-Heley, 1979
  3. Algernon Graves, The Royal Academy of Arts: a complete dictionary of contributors and their work from its foundation in 1769 to 1904. Wakefield, S.R. Publishers, Ltd., Bath, Kingsmead Reprints, 1970
  4. G.W. Friend, Alphabetical List of Engravers declared at the Printsellers’ Association, London since its establishment in 1847 to the end of 1885. The Printsellers’ Association, London, 1886.

 

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