Antique signed 1876 "The Postillion" by Jean-Richard Goubie (1842-1899) engraving
Medium: Antique Steel Engraving on wove paper after the original sketch by Master French Engraver Adolphe Lalauze (1838-1906)
This beauty is not a modern print. This impression is over than 135 years old with sharp lines and crisp strike. Perfect addition to your walls! Pretty good condition- three small tears. Two on left base; one on left upper corner. Some signs of age and discoloration (please refer to pictures). None of the damage takes away from the print.
Artist Biography:
Pupil of Jean Léon Gerome at the School of Fine Arts in Paris, Goubie took part in the Paris Salon from 1869 to 1893, obtaining a medal of third class in 1874. Goubie mpressed his master who invited him and seven other travellers to join a painting expedition to Egypt and Asia Minor. The group included another student, Paul Lenoir, the realist painter, Léon Bonnat, two journalists, a doctor and another friend. Gerome also invited his brother-in-law, Albert Goupil, photographer and son of the famous merchant and publisher. It is probably through this meeting that Goupil & Cie would later publish a series of Goubie paintings accompanied by a verse of poetry as part of Goupil's Illustrations at the Salons Français from 1873 to 1879. Goubie is famous for his animal works, especially those depicting horses described with meticulous, quasi-anatomical observation and mounted by elegant horsemen or amazons of the aristocratic or bourgeois world. Goubie was also very popular with the American clientele probably thanks to the Goupils. For example, his painting exhibited at the Salon of 1872 and titled Le prix de chasse was made for James H. Stebbins of New York. The painting is today at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. A second work, Chevaux et Personnages is also preserved in an American museum in Cincinnati.
