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Élégante à l'oiseau bleu, aquatinte en couleurs attribuée à Jean Hardy

Une jeune femme aux cheveux courts tend la main à un oiseau bleu dont la longue queue se déroule en courbe. Sa robe ample, couleur de miel, est ajourée d'un semis de dentelle et nouée à la taille d'un ruban noir qui retombe sur la jupe ; près de sa main, un rosier en fleur. Des rameaux gris descendent du haut de la feuille comme un rideau, et le fond passe du clair au sombre par aplats veloutés. Une signature au crayon se devine en bas à droite. Le cadre est doré, la marie-louise bleue.

L'aquatinte est une gravure en creux qui travaille par surfaces : une poudre de résine fixée sur la plaque avant la morsure de l'acide donne ces aplats de ton que le regard lit comme un lavis. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince la met au point dans les années 1760. Jean Hardy, dont la biographie reste mince et la naissance incertaine, entre 1880 et 1883, est connu pour des eaux-fortes et des aquatintes en couleurs publiées à Paris par la galerie Lutelia, vers 1925. L'estampe lui est attribuée par le marchand, qui la date vers 1920.

Époque
Circa 1920
Technique
Aquatinte, signée
Artiste
Jean Hardy
Style
Art Nouveau
Dimensions
L. 56 × H. 72 cm
État
En l'état
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A young woman with bobbed hair holds out her hand to a blue bird whose long tail unfurls in a curve. Her full, honey-coloured dress is worked with a scatter of lace and tied at the waist with a black ribbon that falls across the skirt; near her hand, a flowering rose bush. Grey tendrils hang from the top of the sheet like a curtain, and the ground moves from light to dark in velvety areas of tone. A pencil signature can be made out lower right. The frame is gilt, the mount blue.

Aquatint is an intaglio technique that works in areas: rosin powder fixed to the plate before the acid bites gives those fields of tone the eye reads as a wash. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince perfected it in the 1760s. Jean Hardy, whose biography remains thin and whose birth is uncertain, between 1880 and 1883, is known for colour etchings and aquatints published in Paris by the Galerie Lutelia around 1925. The print is attributed to him by the dealer, who dates it to around 1920.

Sources
  • L'aquatinte est une gravure en creux produisant des aplats de ton par poudre de résine et morsure à l'acide ; mise au point dans les années 1760 par Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatint
  • Jean Hardy, dit né en 1883 par Annex Galleries, a réalisé des eaux-fortes et aquatintes en couleurs, publiées par la galerie Lutelia à Paris, vers 1925 ; les informations biographiques sont rares. https://www.annexgalleries.com/inventory/detail/5721/Jean-Hardy/French-actress

Aquatint print by Jean Hardy, "Elégante à l'oiseau bleu". circa 1920

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