"The Theatre of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus... - Lot 24 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL

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"The Theatre of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus... - Lot 24 - Les ventes Damien Voglaire SRL
"The Theatre of the Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ" - HURET (Grégoire). Theatrum dolorum Iesu Christi Dei hominis. 1664, suite engraved with 32 plates of about 50 x 37 cm. With two added engravings by the same artist: Condemnation of St. Stephen and Conversion of St. Paul" (same format). The engravings are mitre-mounted and bound in 19th century brown half-chagrin (heavily worn binding, 1st pl. lined, several plates cut short and reinforced, some small tears and rubbing, traces of handling). Grégoire Huret (1606-1670), is a draughtsman and burin engraver who was received at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1663. "Le Théâtre de la Passion de Notre Seigneur Jésus Christ" is an engraved suite composed of 32 pieces. The explanatory text is missing. The 32 engravings illustrate an episode from the life of Christ without restricting themselves to the strict theme of the Passion despite the title of the suite. Each piece is signed in its composition, in the lower part, by a letter "Greg. Huret [Lugd.] Inu. and Sculpt. Cum Privil. 1664", thus affirming that the invention of the drawing and its engraving belong entirely to Gregoire Huret. The starting point was the observation that "this divine subject of Our Saviour's Passion has, as it were, been left behind and more neglected than the others, having been left unfinished" by painters and sculptors subject to occasional commissions dealing only with "the main subjects such as the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection, etc.". "Gregoire Huret therefore announces a "series of thirty-two paintings of the same shape and height, each filled with work in the proportions that the subjects requested and that the space allowed. The explicit ambition is to produce a suite such as no painter has ever produced, in accordance with an aesthetic that is not that of a print but that of an altarpiece. Rare are the complete suites. See : Emmanuelle Brugerolle and David Guillet, Grégoire Huret, draftsman and engr
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