{"id":7851,"date":"2017-02-15T21:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/?post_type=product&p=7851"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:39:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T15:39:18","slug":"botanical-art-garden-flower-bouquet-elisa-honorine-champin-antique-print-paris-19th-century-2","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/product\/botanical-art-garden-flower-bouquet-elisa-honorine-champin-antique-print-paris-19th-century-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Botanical, Art, Garden Flower Bouquet, Elisa-Honorine Champin, Antique Print, Paris, 19th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elisa-Honorine Champin was a watercolorist and lithographer who painted mainly flowers and fruit.\u00a0\u00a0 Born in Paris, she studied under Mlle. Rich\u00e9 and exhibited at the Salon under her maiden name, Pitet, from 1833 to 1836.\u00a0 After she wed the French painter Jean-Jacques Champin (1796-1860) in 1837, she began exhibiting under her married name.\u00a0 She contributed botanical works to Le Jardin Potager [The Vegetable Garden]<\/strong> (1850-1884) a series of vegetable posters printed by Lemercier as advertisements for the Parisian firm Vilmorin-Andrieux, a leading wholesaler of seeds.<\/p>\n

Lemercier & Cie. was a prolific lithographer of the 19th century, active from at least 1850 to 1884.\u00a0 Among their well-known works were the botanical series of vegetable posters, Le Jardin Potager [The Vegetable Garden]<\/strong> (1850-1884), by Elisa-Honorine Champin and others, for the Parisian firm Vilmorin-Andrieux, a leading wholesaler of seeds.<\/p>\n

Goupil & Co. was founded in 1827 by Henry Rittner (1802-1840), who went into partnership with with Adolphe Goupil (1806-1893) as Maison Goupil two years later.\u00a0 The company quickly attracted notice for their high quality engravings.\u00a0 After Rittner’s death Theodore Vibert (1816-1850) joined the company, which by then was the leading publisher of fine art reproductions in Paris.\u00a0 In 1848, Goupil, Vibert & Co. established the first permanent American branch of a foreign art firm in New York City, and began also producing prints by American artists or of American subjects to appeal to the U.S. market. By mid-1857, Michael Knoedler (1823-1878) had taken over the New York branch and was doing business as “Goupil & Co., M. Knoedler & Co., Successor,” with his younger brother, John (1828-1891) managing the print department.<\/p>\n

Ernest Gambart (1814-1902) was a London publisher and dealer, born in Belgium, who became a British citizen in 1846.\u00a0 He learned the trade in his father’s business, which included a printing, binding and bookselling business, and a reading-room.\u00a0 Around 1833, he established his own print and papermaking business in Paris, and went to England in 1840 as a representative of Goupil & Co., the leading French publisher of fine art reproductions.\u00a0 By 1842, he was a partner in the print importing business Gambart and Junin.\u00a0 Two years later, he launched what became one of the leading print publishers of the period, and produced engravings after the leading British Victorian artists.\u00a0 He frequently collaborated with Goupil & Co., which by 1848 had branches in both Paris and New York. At the end of the 1840s, he expanded into dealing the works of British, French and Dutch artists, opening a London exhibition space which became known as the French Gallery.\u00a0 He became friends with leading patrons and critics of the day, including John Ruskin and F.G. Stephens.\u00a0\u00a0 He also maintained close relationships with artists such as Rosa Bonheur and Alma-Tadema, both of whom he introduced to British audiences.\u00a0 Gambart showed prominent British artists of the day, including J.M.W. Turner, David Roberts, Landseer, Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Ford Madox Brown.\u00a0 He retired a wealthy man in 1870 and served the rest of his life as the Spanish Consul-General in Nice.\u00a0 His nephew L\u00e9on Lef\u00e8vre took over the business, which became Pilgeram & Lef\u00e8vre and continues today as the Lefevre Gallery.\u00a0 Gambart received many honors over his lifetime, including Member of the Royal Victorian Order in 1898.<\/p>\n

Botanical bouquet compositions of varieties of flowers derive from a tradition that begins with Dutch Old Master still life pictures \u2013 for a brief overview see our About Botanicals<\/a> page.<\/p>\n

Condition:\u00a0 Generally very good with the usual light overall toning, wear, soiling.\u00a0 Scattered soft and hard creases.\u00a0 Loss and stain to upper left margin, easily matted out.\u00a0 Publisher\u2019s blind stamp lower margin.<\/p>\n

References:<\/p>\n

B\u00e9n\u00e9zit, E. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs.<\/em>\u00a0 France: Librairie Gr\u00fcnd, 1966.\u00a0 Vol. 2, p. 425.<\/p>\n

Dao, Annie and Miller, Lee Norman.\u00a0 “Botanical sheet\u2014The vegetable garden.”\u00a0 Agropolis Museum.<\/em>\u00a0 1996-2005.\u00a0 http:\/\/museum.agropolis.fr\/english\/pages\/expos\/aliments\/fruits_legumes\/images\/planche.htm (12 October 2005).<\/p>\n

Goodall, Richard.\u00a0 “Ernest Gambart.”\u00a0 The Goodall Family of Artists.<\/em>\u00a0 7 September 2005. http:\/\/www.goodallartists.ca\/ernest.htm (11 November 2005).<\/p>\n

McIntosh, DeCourcy E.\u00a0 “19th Century AD.”\u00a0 Magazine Antiques.<\/em>\u00a0 September 2004.\u00a0 on FindArticles.<\/em>\u00a0 2005.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.findarticles.com\/p\/articles\/mi_m1026\/is_3_166\/ai_n6190031 (11 November 2005).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elisa-Honorine Champin (d. 1871) (artist and lithographer)
\nLemercier & Cie. (printer)
\nBouquet Compos\u00e9e [Bouquet Composition]<\/strong>
\nfrom Flore des Salons [Flora from the Exhibitions]<\/em><\/strong>
\nGoupil & Co., Paris & New York; E. Gambart, London: 3d Quarter 19th Century
\nHand-colored lithograph with tinted block background
\n12 x 10 inches, image
\n16.75 x 13 inches, overall
\n$475<\/p>\n

Print by the French botanical artist Elisa Honorine Champin featuring a variety of roses along with other flowers in a ribbon-tied bouquet, a moth approaching from the upper right, a small caterpillar crawling on a partially eaten leaf, lower right.\u00a0 The composition is decorative in its arrangements of vividly-colored flowers.\u00a0 At the same time, the artist accurately portrays the plants from a scientific perspective, achieved by skillful shading and the naturalistic, informal positioning of the flowers.<\/p>\n

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