L'Enfance du Christ. Repos de la Sainte Famille (1re planche)

Title:: L'Enfance du Christ. Repos de la Sainte Famille (1re planche)
Description:: Under the shade of three palm trees, the virgin sits, holding the baby Jesus on her knees. Saint Joseph is standing behind her. On the left in the foreground, is a winged angel on his knees and prostrate in adoration. Behind him, another angel is kneeling and his eyes are raised to the sky. Above the group, a flying angel drops flowers; behind this angel is another flying angel, with clasped hands. (Berlioz, The Childhood of Christ, 2nd part)
Artist:: Fantin-Latour, Henri, 1836-1904
Name on Item:: H. Fantin
Date:: [ca. 1880]
Format:: Prints
Genre:: Lithographs
Location:: Boston Public Library
Arts Department
Collection (local):: Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904). Lithographs and Other Prints
Subjects:: Families
Angels
Saints
Spiritual leaders
Jesus Christ
Joseph, Saint
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint
Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Enfance du Christ. Repos de la Sainte Famille.
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Notes:: Title from catalogue raisonné.
Hédiard: H. 28
Additional information accompanying item: Margins rectified. Executed about 1880. Stone destroyed. Lower margin "H. Berlioz. L'Enfance du Christ." First state - without name of printer. 7 or 8 trial proofs. This impression signed and dedicated to Tempelaere. In the lower right margin the word "Essai" written by the artist.
Notes (acquisition):: Gift; Albert H. Wiggin; 1949
Notes (date):: Date from catalogue raisonné.
Notes (citation):: Hédiard, Germain. "Fantin-Latour : catalogue de l'oeuvre lithographique du maître, précédé d'une étude par Germain Hédiard et d'une notice sur Germain Hédiard par Léonce Bénédite." Librairie de l'art ancien et moderne, 1906, Paris.
Notes (object):: First state.
Identifier:: 17_10_000437
Barcode:: 36666003797954

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