Name: Antique Master Print-CRUCIFIXION-RELIGIOUS-LITHOGRAPH-Franquinet-Prudhon-c.1820
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Antique Master Print-CRUCIFIXION-RELIGIOUS-LITHOGRAPH-Franquinet-Prudhon-c.1820

€175.00

‘PRUDHON INVT. / FRANQUINET DEL. / TIRE DU CABINET DE MR. BRUNET.’

– Christ on the cross with mourners below, including a veiled Mary and kneeling figures, rendered in strong chiaroscuro. A Romantic devotional interpretation after a drawing by Pierre-Paul Prud’hon.

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Description

Medium: Lithography on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 29.7 x 50 cm (11.69 x 19.69 inch). Image size: 16.5 x 26.7 cm. (6.5 x 10.51 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing in margins, strong tonal preservation, slight crease at lower left margin. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

CRUCIFIXION, CHRIST, LITHOGRAPH, ROMANTICISM, PRUDHON, FRANQUINET, 19TH CENTURY RELIGIOUS ART, DEVOTIONAL PRINT | PCO-B9-08

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Tire du Cabinet de Mr. Brunet.

State: Early lithograph.

Reference: Amsterdam Museum, inv. nr. A 57675.

Biography engraver: Guillaume Henri Franquinet (1785-1854), Belgian lithographer known for academic and religious subjects, active in France.

Biography artist: Pierre-Paul Prud’hon (1758-1823), French Romantic painter and draughtsman known for his graceful, often melancholic allegorical and religious compositions.