Print Description
Portrait of a fair lady in high fashion, depinting a Russian lady. The portrait serves both as a celebration of feminine beauty and a display of the fashion and artistic styles of the time. These are imaginative or idealized representations rather than portraits of specific individuals.
Made by Joseph Lemercier and Alexandre Cheyere after Henri Grevedon.
Medium: Lithograph on wove (vellin) paper.
Sheet size: 34 x 49 cm (13.39 x 19.29 inch). Image size: 32 x 45 cm. (12.6 x 17.72 inch).
Condition: good, given age. Good condition. Some foxing. A stain on the bottom left. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.
PORTRAIT-FASHION-LADY-ALPHABAT-RUSSE | PORTRAIS – MISC
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Alphabet des dames, ou recueil de vingt-cinq portraits de fantaisie [Alphabet of ladies, or collection of twenty-five fantasy portraits.
Biography engraver: Joseph Lemercier (1803-1887) was the director of the celebrated Paris lithography firm of Lemercier & Cie. He was one of the most important Parisian printers and lithographers of the nineteenth century. He worked for the greatest publishers and artists of his time. He played an important role in the spread and generalization of the photolithography process, which made it possible to transfer a photographic image onto a lithographic stone and thus make printing ink prints of this image.
Alexandre Chey?re (1787-1859) was a French lithographer active in the early 19th century. Born in Laversine, Aisne, around 1787, Chey?re began his professional activity on August 17, 1821, and concluded it on July 5, 1828.
Chey?re was succeeded by Lemercier, whose company became one of the most prominent French lithographic firms of the 19th century. Notable figures in the lithographic field, such as Lasteyrie, Prieur, Villain, and Marlet, were listed as his sponsors, which implies a well-connected presence in the artistic circles of his time.
Biography artist: Pierre Louis Henri Grevedon (1776-1860) was a French painter, lithographer and illustrator.
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