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Artist or maker

Unknown

Date

c 1800 {nd}

Dated stylistically and in relation to use of crayon d'Isabey, see Halliday in Related documents.

Place of production

Paris, France

Medium

etching and engraving on paper

Type of object

etchings
trade cards

Accession number

3686.3.48.119

One of a set, see others ▸

Trade card of Niodot, son, merchant stationer (marchand papetier), At the Golden Griffin. The image is etched and the text is engraved. With inscription. Cut into an oval. The design consists of a plaque bearing the text and a representation of the shop sign.

The oblong plain plaque is set on a block which has projections at the corners. The outer part of the block is shaded with parallel lines; the plaque is surrounded by a moulding decorated with a guilloche pattern. The plaque is surmounted by a griffin. A ribbon passes behind the griffin's back which bears the name of the shop sign. A garland of flowers is draped behind the griffin's neck and passes over the corners of the block.

Commentary

Curatorial commentary

For a much simpler label for the same trader which appears on a sketch book used by Jacques-Louis David, see Documentation.
The shop sign may be a subtle reference to a type of large paper called 'le grand aigle', or great eagle, see "Encyclopédie" in Related documents.
On 'crayons d'Isabey', named after the artist Jean-Baptists Isabey, see Halliday in Related documentation.
Grand-Carteret notes that Niodot's trade cards at the time of the Consulate featured a griffin, whilst those produced after 1805 bore an Imperial eagle, see Documentation. Also mentions later label at rue Richelieu, no. 70.
Phillippa Plock, 2008

Physical description

Dimensions (mm) / weight (mg)

85 x 108 (irregular shape)

Physical details

single sheet, image size: 62 x 87 (sheet trimmed to or within plate mark)

Inscriptions

ce 40
~Inscription
lower centre, pen and ink

Transcription

AU GRIFFON D'OR / No. 43. / Cloitre [sic] St. Germain l'auxerrois, à Paris. / NIODOT Fils, Md. Papetier, tient le Dépôt des / véritables Crayons d'Isabey de toutes les qua- / lités (qualités), Papiers velin anglois [sic] superfin, Cartons tendus / et apprètrés de toutes grandeurs pour dessiner à sa / maniere [sic], Idem sur chassis et Tirators &c.... / Cartons encadrés et dorés pour dessiner et laver, / colle les Dessin, Gouaches, Pastels de toutes façons, / tient en général tout ce qui est relatif à la Papeterie

Translation

At the Golden Griffin. No. 43 cloître Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois in Paris. Niodot son merchant stationer has the depot of true Isabey chalks in all qualities, superfine English vellum papers, stretched and prepared boards in all sizes for drawing in one's own way. Ditto on frames and stretchers etc... Boards framed and gilded for drawing and for wash mounts drawing, gouaches, pastels in all styles, keeps generally everything relating to the paper trade.

Language

French

History

Part of

Recueil d'adresses: A collection of sixteenth, seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth century French, German, Belgian, Swiss, Dutch, Italian and Spanish trade cards, labels, wrappers, advertisements and related commercial ephemera bound in four volumes. 3686.1-4

Provenance

Acquired by Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild (b.1839, d.1898) before 1897; inherited by his sister Alice de Rothschild (b.1847, d.1922); inherited by her great-nephew James de Rothschild (b.1878, d.1957); bequeathed to Waddesdon The Rothschild Collection (The National Trust) in 1957.

Collection

Waddesdon (National Trust)
Bequest of James de Rothschild, 1957

Bibliography

John Grand-Carteret; Papeterie et papetiers de l'ancien temps; Paris; Georges Putois; 1913; pp. 277-78; describes the text of an example of this print.

Related literature

Denis Diderot, Jean d' Alembert; Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences des Arts et des Metiers, xxxv vols [Paris: 1751-80]; Paris; Pergamon Press; 1969
Tony Halliday, Academic Outsiders at the Paris Salons of the Revolution: The Case of Drawings "à la manière noire", Oxford Art Journal, 21, 1998, 71-86. on 'crayons d'Isabey'

Related files

- http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/fo/visite?srv=mfc&idFicheOeuvre=121174 = photograph of Jacques-Louis David's sketchbook album with a label of Niodot fils (N° inventaire: RF 9136). The sketchbook includes drawings for David's "Leonidas" (1800-1814). [accessed 14 January 2009]
- http://arts-graphiques.louvre.fr/fo/visite?srv=mfc&idFicheOeuvre=121174 = photograph of Jacques-Louis David's sketchbook album with a label of Niodot fils (N° inventaire: RF 9136). The sketchbook includes drawings for David's "Leonidas" (1800-1814). [accessed 14 January 2009]

Other details

Location of premises

cloître Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, Paris

Notes

(no. 43)

Shop Sign

Griffon d'Or, Au

Trades

marchand papetier/Stationery goods activities
papetier/Stationery goods activities

Products

crayons d'Isabey (Isabey chalks)
papier velin anglais superfin (superfine English vellum paper)
cartons tendus et apprêtés (stretched and prepared boards)
cartons encadrés et dorés pour dessiner et laver (boards framed and gilded for drawing and for wash)

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