Antoine Ignace Melling, 1826-30
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Antoine Ignace Melling (1763-1831) (after)
Benedikt Piringer and F. Slathé (engravers) Le Pic du Midi de Bigorre, vu des Cabanes de Tramasaigues, Plate #35 Etablissement Thermal d'Eaux-Bonnes, Plate #10 Etablissement Thermal d'Ussat, Plate #56 Cascade du Bousses, Val de Gerret, Plate #21 from Voyage Pittoresque dans les Pyrénées Françaises et les Départements Adjacents [Picturesque Travels in the French Pyrenees and the Adjacent Areas] Treuttel and Wurtz, Paris: 1826-30 Hand colored aquatints 16.5 x 22.5 inches, approximate sheet size 10 x 14.25 inches, approximate image size $450 each |
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Series of picturesque landscape views based on original sepia watercolors of the Pyrenees region showing mountains, waterfalls, hot springs, villages and chateaux. Melling had been appointed landscape painter for the emperor Napoleon's wife Josephine on the strength of a similar work about Constantinople. In 1821, he was sent by the French government to document the Pyrenees and demonstrate that their natural beauty rivalled that of the Alps. These fine aquatints were among 72 originally issued together with text by Joseph Antoine Cervini.
Brunet III 1591-92. Graesse IV 473. |