Artist: Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart (French, 1837 - 1880) was an etcher, illustrator, and watercolorist. Jacquemart was also an accomplished landscape watercolorist and, in 1879, was a founder member of the Société des Aquarellistes Français. In 1871, the newly established Metropolitan Museum of Art commissioned preeminent French etcher Jules Jacquemart to create a series of prints reproducing paintings from the founding collection.
Printer: Born in Paris in 1822, Auguste Delatre was printer of etchings and aquatints. Around 1850 Delatre opened his own printing house which was quickly famous in France and abroad.
Title: Souvenirs de Voyage (Travel Souvenirs).
Signed, Numbered, Titled, and Dated: Upper right above image: 8.; lower right in image: Jules Jacquemart 62; in plate below image: J. Jacquemart sculpt. Imp. Delâtre, Rue des Feuillantines, 4 Paris / SOUVENIRS DE VOYAGE / Paris, Publié par A CADART & F. CHEVALIER, Éditeurs, Rue Richelieu, 66. Bears blindstamp of the publishers of the volume, A Cadart & Luquet, with the address: "79 R.[ue] Richelieu". Margins were trimmed, and a part of the inscription is cut off and is provided here for reference purposes only. The label of The Lakeside Studio Lakeside Michigan pasted to the mat.
Dimensions: Image 7 1/8" x 12 1/2. Sheet 9" x 13 1/2". Mat 17 1/2" x 23".
Publisher: Cadart & Chevalier 1861-1863 (operational). They published issues of the Société des Aqua-Fortistes.
Date: 1862.
Materials and Techniques: etching on laid paper.
Mat and Frame: Matted
Provenance:
- The Lakeside Studio, Lakeside, Michigan (before 1987).
- The Estate of George "Yorgo" Demetrakopoulos; professor, assistant director of the Medieval Institute, and assistant to the dean at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, from 1965-2000.
Condition: The signs of aging are appropriate for the time. A detailed condition report is available on demand.
Part of: the first volume of prints produced by the Société des Aquafortistes. 1862.
Museums and Libraries: The British Museum 1864,1008.216.
Art Movements, Periods & Schools: French School XIX C.
Notes: This entry incorporates text from Wikipedia and the catalog entry of the same item from The British Museum and The Metropolitan Museum of Art (19.59.1). collections.
Compare Jacquemart’s Souvenirs de voyage and Van Gogh’s painting Three Pairs of Shoes from 1886–87 (Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.)
Plate evoking, in addition to Van Gogh's shoes, those of the landscape painters who traveled the countryside on foot. Jacquemart was also a fetish collector of old shoes, boots, and shoes. (Piasa, June 20, 2014).