Dominique VIVANT DENON & PREVOST (sculpsit)
Voyage dans la Basse et Haute Egypte : 1. Jeunes Barabra. 2. La dernière Pyramide en remontant du Nil. (Planche 62).
Didot, Paris 1803, 40,5x54cm, une feuille.
Original print folio, taken from Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt Vivant Denon. Board composed of two views as described by the author: No.1 The remains of a coated near Etfu dock; two staircases were going down the Nile; none other ruins will accompany this fragment, which, however, indicate the ancient neighborhood of a city, since the stairs announce that dock still had a purpose other than to retain water; the river barefoot abutment of this construction, and currently happening behind. This interesting in itself, but offering little fragment picturesque forms, I thought I should add a group of young characters called Goubli or beyond, or Barabra, which is the generic name for all the peoples of Egypt which are beyond the cataracts; their costume for men is the absolute nudity, what they add a piece of cloth or cotton cloth they roam at will on what they want to cover their person; their hair long enough, though frizzy, curly and still curly long way to ancient Egyptian figures; they anoint their hair with oil of cedar, they like the smell, and at the same time prevents the inconvenience of vermin, which would otherwise be an indestructible établiroit way in impossible to comb hair. Women and children wear two earrings in each ear, one above and one below, necklaces with fringes formed small leather thongs, completed by grains of colored glass; a belt of the same material, finished well, and that happens to them until the middle of the thighs, enough to calm their modesty, until they become marriageable. Women beyond, are well made, are round and firm muscles, have thin skin, cool touch, and it has particular merit appreciated by men whose love is palpable, and voluptuousness any material which calculate and evaluate the physical, and are buying in women beyond the summer pleasures, kind of luxury we still acquainted for clothes: the Russians are building their homes for winter Italians for the summer, Orientals, like Kamchadals, believe they need a winter home and a home for the time of great heat. No. 2 A view of the last pyramids, one hundred and thirty leagues from those of Giza, near a village built in the desert beyond Etfu; this pyramid, much smaller than the others, constructed masses more divided, did not put the same weather resistance, or belongs to an earlier era; collapsed in all its parts, it seems more than a pile of rubble, that however we see that have been shaped and placed on the regular bases. To give some interest in this view if dry by itself, I added the house, taken from life too, an Arab farmers on the edge of the desert family; I wanted to give the image of this monotonous tranquility that is not distracted by the shock of no novelty; This calm that leaves a long time between each life event; that tranquility where everything succeeds peacefully in the soul, where little by little becomes a feeling an emotion, a habit that becomes a principle, where finally the lightest impression is analyzed; so that in conversation with this species of men, we are astonished to find him in the most delicate distinctions, and the finest sense next to the most absolute ignorance. Some sections of earthen walls, which they add a straw cover, sufficient to their homes. The factory is in the middle is a dovecote, built in terracotta in the sun; it is divided into small boxes in the interior for each family of pigeon; the door is round; this is what is seen below the loft; there is a small opening in the middle to let the air; it is applied every night to put the colony safe against the jackals. To the right is the barn, lower, smaller, because he has no inner division; left the main apartment, the women, where one fears a cold night when removed; above are dogs, which are nothing in the friendly society, living apart as defensive allies; a deer, a hawk, which are also free partners; chickens and pigeons are the only domestic: the bardaks, which are the pots to drink the ballasses jars or clear water, and some bowls are in nearly every household utensils; the plant that we see is a gourd that grows in the desert, germinates and grows during the season cool nights that follow one another in the flood, and when some rain in the mountains bring a little water in the plain ; this plant extends; melons it produces are formed; part of the leaf is eaten by gazelles, the rest is consumed by drought; defended by their bitter fruits remain isolated until the year after, the seed sown and perpetuates this vegetation, the most striking of the few ones that grow in the desert. One of the men held a turban knitting wool sheep: one has simply because he does nothing; calm, he dreamed he saw. Some foxing mainly marginal, otherwise good condition. Published for the first time in two volumes, an atlas of engravings, Didot, in 1802, the 'Journey to the Lower and Upper Egypt proved so successful that it was translated in 1803 into English and German, and a few years later in Dutch and Italian, among others. Almost all boards are designed by Denon, who also engraved himself a few, including portraits of the inhabitants of Egypt, who still kept the freshness of sketches taken on the spot (our 104-111 ). Two dozen writers have also collaborated on the creation of which Baltard, Galen, Reville and other etchings. Dominique Vivant, Baron Denon says Vivant Denon, born in Givry January 4, 1747 and died in Paris April 27, 1825, is a writer, author, diplomat and French administrator. At the invitation of Bonaparte, he joined the expedition to Egypt in shipping from May 14, 1798 on the frigate "La Juno." Protected by French troops, he had the opportunity to travel the country in all directions in order to gather the material that was the basis for his artistic work and the most important literary. It supports in particular General Desaix in Upper Egypt, which he refers to numerous sketches, ink wash and other drawings in pen, black chalk, or chalk. He draws constantly, usually on his knee, standing or on horseback, and sometimes even under enemy fire. After a journey of 13 months during which he draws thousands of drawings, Vivant Denon returned to France with Bonaparte, and became the first artist to publish the story of the expedition. The 141 boards that accompany his diary retrace its entire journey from the coast of Corsica to the pharaonic monuments of Upper Egypt. Bonaparte then appointed Director General of the Central Museum of the Republic, which became the Napoleon Museum and the Royal Louvre and arts administrator. In 1805, Vivant Denon revival project of the Vendome column, which had been suspended in 1803 then organizes expeditions across Europe to raise imperial works of art which are plundered to be carried away to the Louvre. In 1814, Louis XVIII confirmed as head of the Louvre, one wing of which still bears his name today. It is considered a great precursor of museology, art history and Egyptology.
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