Martignac by Delpech (2 results)

A lithographic portrait on wove paper of French statesman and Prime Minister Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, by Delpech after Zéphirin Belliard. Hand-coloured (clothing & hair), with a facsimile of Martignac's signature beneath. Sheet size is 29cm x 46cm / 11.5 x 18 inches. At left: "Z. Belliard". At lower right: "Lith. de Delpech". A clean and attractive image, light foxing. Several varieties and sizes of these lithographs exist, with and without facsimile signatures. From the French work: "Iconographie des Contemporains, ou, Portraits des Personnes dont les noms se rattachent plus pariculièrement, soit par leurs actions, soit par leurs écrits, aux divers événements qui ont eu lieu en France, depuis 1789, jusqu'en 1829 : avec les fac-simile de l'écriture de chacune d'elles / / lithographiés par les plus habiles artistes, d'après les Peintures, Sculptures et dessins de MM. David [et al.] et plusieurs lithographiés d'après nature par MM. Hesse, Dupré et Maurin.". …

Condition: Good. Original lithograph. First edition. 52 x 33.5 cm (sheet). Good, light specks of foxing and sheet toning throughout.In 1823 Delpech undertook a vast series of portraits with facsimiles of the subjects' writings, "The Iconography of contemporaries or Portraits of people whose names are more particularly linked, either by their actions or by their writings, to the various events which took place in France, from 1789 to 1829," with facsimiles of the writing of each of them, published by F.-S. Delpech, lithographed by the most skillful artists [Mauzaisse, Grévedon, Belliard, Monanteuil, Bazin Jeune], based on paintings, sculptures and drawings [.], and several lithographed from life by MM. Hesse, Dupré and Maurin. which must include 200 portraits. ..…