Name: Antique Master Print-ANDROMEDA-MYTHOLOGICAL-FIGURE-LITHOGRAPH-Fantin-Latour-1901
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Antique Master Print-ANDROMEDA-MYTHOLOGICAL-FIGURE-LITHOGRAPH-Fantin-Latour-1901

€345.00

‘FANTIN’ (SIGNED IN THE PLATE)’

– Mythological scene depicting Andromeda chained to a rock by the sea, shown nude and turning away while shielding her eyes. Below the main image appears a small study of a female head.

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Description

Medium: Lithograph on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 43 x 57 cm (16.93 x 22.44 inch). Image size: 22.8 x 30 cm. (8.98 x 11.81 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing, creasing, and soiling. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

ANDROMEDA, MYTHOLOGY, HENRI FANTIN-LATOUR, SYMBOLIST PRINT, NUDE FIGURE, MYTHOLOGICAL SUBJECT | MAP-MODERN-2

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From Fantin-Latour’s lithographic series devoted to musical apotheoses. 79/100.

Reference: Hediard 158. Cleveland Museum of Art 1921.78.

Biography engraver: Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904) was a French painter, lithographer and printmaker associated with Realism and Symbolism. He became especially renowned for his imaginative lithographs inspired by music and literature, particularly works dedicated to composers such as Berlioz, Wagner and Schumann.