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An original lithograph on wove paper by French artist Pierre-Paul Prudhon (1758-1823) titled "Une Lecture", 1822. This is a later edition printed in 1870. Printed by Bertauts and published by Gazette Des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, 1870. There is an example of this work in the permanent collection of the British Museum, London, UK. Sheet size: 10.75" x 6.75". Image size: 7.25" x 5.75". In excellent condition.This lithograph was published by Gazette des Beaux-Arts. The Gazette des Beaux-Arts was a French art review, found in 1859 by Édouard Houssaye, with Charles Blanc as its first chief editor. Assia Visson Rubinstein was chief editor under the direction of George Wildenstein from 1928 until 1960. Her papers, which include all editions of the Gazette from this period, are intact at the Cantonal and University Library of Lausanne in Dorigny. The Gazette was a world reference work on art history for nearly 100 years – one other editor in chief, from 1955 to 1987, was Jean Adhémar. It was bought in 1928 by the Wildenstein family, whose last representative was Daniel Wildenstein, its director from 1963 until his death in 2001. The review closed in 2002.Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, (1758 Cluny, France, – 1823 Paris), was a French painter and draftsman born the tenth son of a stonecutter in Burgundy. He began studying painting in Dijon at age sixteen. He arrived in Paris in 1780, but his experience in Italy from 1784 to 1787, when he absorbed the softness and sensuality of Correggio’s works and Leonardo da Vinci’s sfumato, gave his art its distinctive style. Upon his return to Paris, Prud’hon enthusiastically supported the French Revolution. In 1801 Napoleon favored him with commissions for portraits, ceiling decorations, and allegorical paintings. "Prud’hon’s true genius lay in allegory; this is his empire and his true domain, " Eugène Delacroix later wrote. In 1816 he gained membership in the Institute de France. An ill-fated love affair with a pupil and collaborator who committed suicide in his studio caused Prud’hon’s depression and subsequent death. Proudhon’s paintings were based on classical texts and ancient prototypes, but his dreaminess and melancholy were more akin to Romanticism. Please check out Lot #’s 0482 & 0483 The Callcott and the Shayer original art, These are important original antique paintings .
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