View, France, Pyrenees Mountain Views, Melling, Antique Prints, Paris, 1820s

Description

Antoine Ignace (Anton Ignaz) Melling was a German-born painter, draftsman, and architect active in France. Born to a family of artists, he was a pupil of his uncle, Joseph Melling, and at age 19 accompanied a diplomatic delegation to Italy, Egypt and finally Constantinople, where he settled and spent 18 years as Imperial Architect in the Ottoman court. Arriving in Paris in 1803, he published a collection of prints, Voyage Pittoresque de Constantinople et des Rives du Bosphor (1809-19), which led to his appointment as landscape painter to the Empress Josephine. He later served as a painter in the court of Louis XVIII. Melling exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1804 to 1824, winning a medal in 1810. In 1821, the French government commissioned a series of landscapes published as a series of aquatints in Voyage Pittoresque dans les Pyrénées (1826-30). Melling was made a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in 1825. Today, his drawings, prints and watercolors are in prominent French museums, including the Louvre and Versailles.

Benedikt Piringer was a German artist. Friedrich Salathé was a Swiss painter and draftsman.

Condition: Generally very good with the usual overall toning, wear, soft creases. Margins with various minor scattered short tears, foxing, chipped edges, which can be matted out when framed.

References:

“Antoine Ignace Melling.” Wikipedia. 19 May 2009. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Ignace_Melling (21 May 2009).

Bénézit, E. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. France: Librairie Gründ, 1966. Vol. 6 p. 49.

Brunet, Jacques-Charles. Manuel du Libraire et de l’Amateur de Livres. Berlin: Josef Altmann, 1922 (reprint). III 1591-92.

Graesse, Jean George Théodore. Trésor de Livres Rares et Précieux ou Nouveau Dictionnaire Bibliographique 1-8.Milan & New York: Görlich, 1950. IV 473.