Pamono Maurice Desvallières, Porteur d’Amphore, 1898, Original Lithograph> Art Nouveau

Maurice Desvallières (1857-1926)

Porteur d’Amphore
(Amphora Carrier)

Original Lithograph from the glorious portfolio “L’Estampe Moderne”, issue #18 (October 1898)

On wove paper

Year: 1898

Size (sheet): 405 x 305 mm
Size (image): 378 x 232 mm

Blind stamp of the publisher, bottom right, out of the image

Excellent condition: minor signs of age and handling
Great colours
Full margins (not cropped, not trimmed)

SPECIAL PLATE, made by a non-full time visual artist, but by French gay playwright Maurice Desvallières (1857-1926)

About the Collection (L’Estampe Moderne)

L’Estampe Moderne appeared in 1897-1899 as a series of 24 monthly fascicles, each containing 4 original lithographs, printed by Parisian Imprimerie Champenois. Many accomplished European Art Nouveau painters contributed works to this publication, which contained only Original prints invented and produced especially for this collection. The publication was edited by Charles Masson and H. Piazza. Each issue came in a paper cover bearing an original lithograph by Alphonse Mucha.
Each lithograph was accompanied by a tissue containing the details (title of the artwork, name of the artist, etc.) and a short text by a well-known author who inspired the artist (this one being from L’Agonie, by Jean Lombard).

from the text on the tissue paper, by Jean Lombard:

On ouït des heurtements de crotales et de cymbales, des pincements de tambourahs égyptiens et des lyres grecques, des frétillements de cistres et des cris de flûtes. Et des femmes, dont la robe flottait, apparurent, attendant un signal. C’était le troisième service, le service des fruits, des pâtisseries et des vins étrangers, qu’ils burent, cette fois-ci, dans des cyathos plongés en de grands cratères de bronze relevés d’émaux.
Assis sur des escabeaux, à l’extrémité du triclinium, les parasites frappèrent dans leurs mains. Un esclave lybien, entièrement nu, traversa l’atrium dallé de marbre. Il portait sur l’épaule une amphore à deux anses remplie d’un vin précieux du Cœcube, que l’on avait coutume de répandre sur la table à la fin des repas en guise de libations aux dieux…..
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Important:

. The listing is for the original print, in the above mentioned very good / excellent condition.
. The original tissue paper introduction has some folds and tears, especially along the margins, and it will be given as is to the buyer as a gift for confirming the authenticity.
. The cover by Mucha is shown as a reference