Histoire de Joseph, accompagnée de dix figures, relatives aux Principaux Evenemens de la Vie de ce Fils du patriarche Jacob, et gravées sur les modèles du fameux Reimbrandt. Amsterdam, Jean Neaulme, 1757.

Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières (Comte de) (1692-1765) after Rijn, Rembrandt van (1606-1669)

Histoire de Joseph, accompagnée de dix figures, relatives aux Principaux Evenemens de la Vie de ce Fils du patriarche Jacob, et gravées sur les modèles du fameux Reimbrandt. Amsterdam, Jean Neaulme, 1757.

Name: Histoire de Joseph, accompagnée de dix figures, relatives aux Principaux Evenemens de la Vie de ce Fils du patriarche Jacob, et gravées sur les modèles du fameux Reimbrandt. Amsterdam, Jean Neaulme, 1757.
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In-2; title page in two colors: ‘HISTOIRE / DE / JOSEPH, / ACCOMPAGNEE DE DIX FIGURES, / Rélatives aux Principaux Evenemens de la / Vie de ce Fils du / PATRIARCHE JACOB, / Et gravées sur le modéles du / FAMEUX REIMBRANDT / Par Monsieur le / COMTE DE CAYLUS / (pasted down) Honoraire de l’Academie des Inscriptions & des / Belle-Lettres;…’. Nine of ten full-page plates reproducing (in reverse) a series of ink drawings which is now in the Louvre (Inv. 22903 to 22912), where they are catalogued as drawings in the manner of Rembrandt; the name of Gerbrandt van den Eeckhout has also been suggested.

Caylus was an amateur etcher. He turned into prints many drawings in the collection of the Louvre. After the Introduction is a list of the ten plates. Titled at bottom, signed.
I) ‘Joseph raconte ses sognes’, Joseph telling his dreams; signed at bottom: ‘Rembrandt del. / C. Scul.’, numbered on bottom right.
II) ‘Joseph est descendu dans la cisterne’, Joseph in the cistern.
III) ‘Joseph est vendu á des marchands Ismaelites’, Joseph being sold to an Ismaelite merchant.
V) ‘Chasteté de Joseph.’, the chastity of Joseph.
VI) ‘La femme de Putiphar accuse Joseph’.
VII) ‘Joseph dans la prison’.
VIII) ‘Joseph explique les songes de Pharaon’
IX) ‘Joseph governeur d’Egypte’
X) ‘Joseph, reconnu par ses freres’.
plate nr. IV missing “Jacob affligé a la vue de la robe de Joseph’.

Caylus conceived this booklet as illustrated book to give an account on the life of Joseph. Some etchings are more successful than others, also considering Caylus’ endless experimenting with the techninque. See for example plate nr. II: the darkest areas are in fact white here. Possibly something went wrong during the etching process.

Pages and plates loose; cardboard binding loose and damaged. Foxing and smudges especially on the external margins.

SKU: 64476

Etching and letterpress on paper. Plates: ca. 219 x 160 mm, total: 325 x 195 mm; brownings and tears along the most external margins; plates still in good condition; light foxing on margins of plates. Cohen, 210.

€ 968,00 (€ 800,00 ex. btw)

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