{"id":7941,"date":"2017-02-15T21:10:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/?post_type=product&p=7941"},"modified":"2021-06-30T02:43:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T06:43:18","slug":"botanical-art-prevost-flowers-in-basket-still-life-antique-print-paris-early-19th-century","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.georgeglazer.com\/wpmain\/product\/botanical-art-prevost-flowers-in-basket-still-life-antique-print-paris-early-19th-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Botanical, Art, Prevost, Flowers in Basket Still Life, Antique Print, Paris Early 19th Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jean-Louis Pr\u00e9vost was a painter of landscapes and flowers; and frequently worked in watercolor.\u00a0 Born in Nointel, France, he was a student of Bachelier and a member of a circle of painters associated with the great botanical artist Gerrit van Spaendonck.\u00a0 He was a member of the Academy of Saint-Luc, exhibiting paintings of flowers and fruits there from 1791 to 1810, and he also exhibited at the Academie Royale.\u00a0 His works are in the collection of a number of French museums.\u00a0 His best known work is the Collection des Fleurs et des Fruits<\/strong>.\u00a0 A series of Cahiers de Fleurs dessine\u00e9s d\u2019apr\u00e9s Nature<\/strong> after Pr\u00e9vost and engraved by A. Legrand was issued in the first quarter of the 19th Century.\u00a0 Prints based on paintings by Pr\u00e9vost were separately issued as well, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, some bound in composite sets of prints by various makers.<\/p>\n

An original Pr\u00e9vost botanical watercolor, and three Pr\u00e9vost botanical prints are in the collection of the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and are illustrated and described in a book of the collection.\u00a0 According to authors Brindle and White, Pr\u00e9vost’s still life images (specifically flowers and fruit in baskets in the Hunt collection) “reflect a characteristically French trend away from Baroque extravagance and toward casual informality.”<\/p>\n

Condition: Generally very good with the usual overall toning and scattered wear. Some minor marginal tears, soft creases, minor loss to upper left corner professionally repaired as rebacked on oriental paper.<\/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. Vol. 5, p. 484 (Legrand); Vol. 7, p. 22 (Pr\u00e9vost).<\/p>\n

Brindle, John V. and White, James J. Flora Portrayed.<\/em> Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: 1985.\u00a0 p. 48.<\/p>\n

Dunthorne, Gordon. Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. Their History, Makers and Uses, with a Catalogue Raisonne of the Works in Which They are Found. <\/em>Washington, D.C.: Published by the Author, 1938.\u00a0 p. 229.<\/p>\n

McKee, George D.\u00a0 \u201cThe Image of France.\u201d\u00a0 ARTFL Project.<\/em>\u00a0 August 2002.\u00a0 http:\/\/www.lib.uchicago.edu\/efts\/ARTFL\/projects\/mckee\/ (4 May 2005).<\/p>\n

Nissen, Claus. Die Botanische Buchillustration: ihre Geschichte und Bibliographie.<\/em> Stuttgart:1951-66.\u00a0 1568.<\/p>\n

Pritzel, Georg August. Thesaurus Literaturae Botanicae Omnium Gentium.<\/em> Milan: 1950.\u00a0 7332.<\/p>\n

Sitwell, Sacheverell. Great Flower Books, 1700-1900.<\/em> New York: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990.\u00a0 p. 127.<\/p>\n

Stafleu, Frans A. and Richard S.Cowan. Taxonomic Literature.<\/em> Utrecht: 1967. 2nd ed., Utrecht: 1976-1988.\u00a0 TL2 8319.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jean Louis Pr\u00e9vost (c. 1760- after 1810) (manner of)
\nFlowers in a Basket
\n<\/strong>Paris: 19th Century
\nColor-printed stipple engraving
\n12.75 x 16.5 inches, overall
\n10.5 x 14.5 inches, plate mark
\n$550<\/p>\n

Decorative botanical study of softly-colored roses, flowers, and foliage arranged as a still life in a woven basket on a ledge.\u00a0 This print is unsigned, though examples are known of similar compositions by Jean Louis Pr\u00e9vost during the golden age of French botanical illustration in the early 19th century.\u00a0\u00a0 For example, there is an extremely similar print of flowers in a basket on a ledge in the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation at Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, illustrated in a book of the collection (Item 50) as well as one of fruit in a basket (Item 51). Those prints are engraved by A. Legrand and A.P. Teillard respectively. This print, unlike those in the Hunt collection, does not have the artist’s or engraver’s name printed in the lower margin.<\/p>\n

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