Artist: Jean Pierre Marie Jazet (French, 1788 - 1871). Title: "La promenade du Jardin Turc - 1810 [Paris]". Medium: Color engraving, etching, and aquatint, with handcoloring. Date: Composed 1812. Dimensions: Overall size: 16 x 23 3/4 in. (406 x 603 mm). Image size: 12 x 21 7/8 in. (305 x 556 mm). Lot Note(s): After Jean Joseph Bostier de Bez (1780-1845). An extremely rare proof (1 of 3) before letters. Cream wove paper. The full sheet, deckle edges four sides. An excellent impression. Condition: good; some foxing and browning with color attenuation; no serious problems. Literature/catalogue raisonne: See: Beraldi, Volume 8, pg. 229; IFF2; B4. Provenance: Ex-collection Cortlandt F. Bishop, with his stamp, verso; M. Knoedler, NYC, with their labels from frame back, separate from the print, since lost. Comment(s): A rare print even with letters. We could find only three sales at auction, all with letters, in the past 25 years, the last in 1995 (sold at $1,168). The print shows a part of the Boulevard du Temple, then called the Boulevard du Crime. "Jean Pierre Marie Jazet was one of the most prominent aquatint engravers of the Napoleonic era. He worked almost exclusively in aquatint, reproducing the paintings of the grand Republican artists such as David, Vernet, de Gros, and Grenier. Although the majority of his prints were patriotic images, he also produced many fine aquatints of pastoral paintings and genre scenes. His fresh images exhibit the beauty of the medium and exemplify his amazing technical ability. His extremely complex prints are fluid yet detailed; they express the beautiful painterly technique of the medium…" Courtesy: Donald A. Heald. [24412-4-800]