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289 - PINGRET (Édouard Henri Théophile) Costumes of the Pyrenees, …
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PINGRET (Édouard Henri Théophile) Costumes of the Pyrenees, drawn from life & lithographed. Paris, Gihaut Frères, n.d. (1834). In-4: 1 leaf (title page), 40 lithographed plates, hand-coloured and gummed at the time. Slightly cream-coloured paper. ½ contemporary brown shagreen, smooth spine lightened and richly decorated with rocaille-style gilt metalwork, gilt title on the upper cover; restorations (the plates are loose, arranged in a modern slipcase with flaps). All 40 plates are present. There were several printings from the same period; some plates show variations. Some are titled in the name of Dero Becker (dated 1834), or, as here, by Gihaut frères, undated. Often, there is not even a title. But what matters is the inscription at the bottom of the plates. The oldest ones appear to be those bearing the inscription ‘litho Benard’ (here, plates 4, 21 to 40), with no mention of a publisher, as well as those bearing no mention of either a lithographer or a printer (plates 1 to 3, 4 to 19). This is the case for the majority of the plates in our copy. There are also plates lithographed by Benard (with Gihaut frères listed as publishers), which may be slightly later; this is not the case here, despite the title! Benard subsequently went into partnership with Lemercier. A few rare plates bear both their names; subsequently, only Lemercier’s name appears, still published by Gihaut frères. A third lithographer, Thierry in Paris (successor to Engelmann), signed at least five plates (3, 14, 18, 19. Here it is no. 20) but certainly more, without a publisher’s name. Finally, printed by Auguste Bry of Paris (Dufour, publisher in Tarbes), a new version was published with the title: “Costumes of the Pyrenees drawn from life & lithographed. Tarbes, Pau, Dufour; Paris, printed by Aug. Bry, n.d.” COLAS notes: “A Lemallier catalogue (1913) lists 10 quarto plates published in Tarbes (by Dufour in 1860)”. According to Lacaze, J. M. Dufour set up shop in Pau on 3 January 1855 and handed over his business to Jean Dufour in 1864. However, the plates bear no reference to Pau, only to Tarbes. It remains to be seen from what date Dufour was practising in Tarbes. Finally, it should be noted that the variant of the ‘trout fishermen at Saint-Sauveur’ (wearing a beret rather than a cap) was published by Cazaux frères in Tarbes. Édouard PINGRET (1788–1875) was born and died in Saint-Quentin in the Aisne. A reporter and illustrator, he first published an album on his home region in 1821, followed by pictorial accounts of his travels in Switzerland in 1824 (views and costumes published separately) and 1827, the Duchy of Baden (costumes) in 1828, followed by the Pyrenees (costumes) in 1834, and finally views of Maisons-Laffitte in 1838. As a painter, he studied under David, and his genre scenes featuring figures set against a landscape background reflect the influence of this Neoclassical school. However, he showed an appreciation for the ‘new explorations of colour and light by the young Romantics’. Also a history painter, he was the only artist authorised to accompany Louis-Philippe on his visit to Queen Victoria in 1843.
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