SCHRANZ, JOSEPH (ARTIST), SABATIER, L. (LITHOGRAPHER)

Panorama Du Bosphore... [Panoramic Views of the Bosphorus: Entrance to the Black Sea]

Paris. J. Missirié, circa 1855. Stock ID #177878

Lithograph with one tint stone and finely hand-coloured, 40.1 x 56.1 cm; 44.9 x 58.9 cm (sheet), four sealed marginal tears (two affecting the caption), no loss to the image, old paper adhesions to the verso, the image in very good condition.

Fine lithograph showing the entrance to the Black Sea from Schranz's celebrated series of views. This is the first from a series of eight which formed a full panorama depicting the entire length of the Bosphorus.

Born into a family of much-travelled artists, Joseph Schranz (1803-circa 1866) made his name in Ottoman Istanbul on the eve of the Crimean War with finely detailed, atmospheric panoramas of the Bosphorus. Admired by the Palace and by a new breed of intrepid tourist, he even trained a generation of Turkish artists to observe nature. Yet Schranz's life in Turkey is an almost total mystery and his known works are rare.

Schranz owed much to "the princely magnificence" of the publisher Missirié, proprietor of the Hôtel d'Angleterre in the Pera district of Constantinople and an "intelligent and generous enthusiast for the arts". Missirié financed the lithography of the work in Paris by Léon Jean-Baptiste Sabatier (c1827-87), "one of the most justly celebrated artists in this genre".

The views of the Bosphorus from Yuşa Tepe (Giant's Grave or Mont Géant) and the surrounding area, including the bay of Beykoz and Hünkâr İskelesi, were favoured by Schranz, not least for their significance during the Crimean War as well as for their commercial value.

(See Briony Llewellyn, "Celebrating 200 Years of Schranz"; Giovanni Bonello (ed), FPM, Malta, 2017).

Atabey 1103; Weber II 1154; Blackmer 1504.

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Price: $700.00 AU

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