15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 189
 

189

Huret, Gregoire Th��tre de la Passion de notre Seigneur J�sus...

Huret, Gregoire
Th��tre de la Passion de notre Seigneur J�sus Christ. Paris: Chez l'Autheur, Rue pierre au Laict, pres La Boucherie de L'apport de Paris, a L'escu de France, 1664. Thirty-two engraved plates mounted, with one (XXXII) framed and glazed (lacking Plate X, 33 of 34 in total).
Huret was received into L'Acad�mie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1663, and it was to this institution he offered his Theatrum Dolorum Iesu Christi in 1664. This was simultaneously a meditation on the life and death of Christ and an artistic masterclass, framing engraving as its own artistic medium, rather than simply "copying". The work was a personal one, with Huret making the original drawings and studies as well as wielding the burin himself. This makes the idiosyncratic framework of the piece all the more meaningful, as this series becomes a personal journey through the Passion through Huret's own interpretation. Huret is careful to give scriptural readings as captions, to ground the expression of the tableaux in the Biblical account, but he reaches either side of the Passion to capture the moments which he found most important. Before the Last Supper there is the triumphal entrance into Jerusalem and the casting out of the moneychangers, whilst the sequence continues after Jesus' body is lain in the tomb with His resurrected appearances and Ascension, closing with the coming of the Son of Man in glory. There are also two other unnumbered plates showing the conversion of St Paul and the stoning of St Stephen and Plate I is an allegorical statement of intent. Huret's composition is theatrical, with stark areas of light and shade, loose draping fabric to define figures, and violent passionate attitudes and facial expressions from those confronted with the Divine.

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