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