Printmaking in the age of Romanticism
Copper-engraved print representing Honoré Daumier, great painter and drawner for satire, c1850.
Promenade trough the french antique prints in the History.
Rare copper-plate engraved print, c1845, represents some antiques items from Greece. Prints are also very important for the archeologic work.
Lithograph from a Gallery of Portrait, c1805, representants the portrait of Bayard, one of the most famous knight in France.
Superb copper-plate engraved print on laid paper, c1770, who represents the Antibes's harbour on the French Riviera. Painted by N. Ozanne. This beautiful comes from the "Collection of french harbours for the king".
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Original print on laid paper from 1723 drawn and engraved by Bernard Picart. Intaglio engraving ("au burin") of Portuguese Jews at Easter meal.
We can note the interest of this print not only with the custom of the Portuguese Jews but also the decoration and costums of these people in the early of 18th century.
Original print on laid paper from 1730 drawn and engraved by Bernard Picart. Intaglio engraving ("au burin") of The distribution of the sacred flame to the Greeks by the Patriarch.
Symbol of the resurrection of Christ, "the sacred flame" was lit in the Holy Sepulcher in the Old City of Jérusalem. That is where the tradition is the last episodes of the Passion of Christ, his crucifixion, his tomb and his miraculous return to life. Greeks still celebrate every year this custom in Jerusalem.
Pumb on Notre Dame Bridge, in Paris
Lithograph signed by Victor LEFRANC (1812-?), c1836.
Paris has always lacked water in the past. In 1670, Daniel Jolly, director of the Samaritan pump, proposed to the municipal body established near the Pont Notre-Dame, a device similar to the one whose administration was entrusted to him, offering to raise at a price 20,000 pounds, 30 to 40 inches of water from the Seine at 80 feet above the level of this river. About 400 liters per minute. His proposal was accepted by order of April 26, 1671.
A similar project was submitted at the same time the board by Jacques Demance proposing for a sum of 40,000 francs to raise 55 inches of water using a new hydraulic machine. His offers were received with equal favor.
The two engineers set to work simultaneously. The result of their work was to deliver consumer Paris an additional volume of 80 inches of water. The pumps, placed on a scaffold were confined in a house whose door, designed by Pierre Bullet, especially attracted the attention of artists and scholars. This is decorated with two bas-reliefs, a masterpiece of Jean Goujon, and debris of a building earlier was beneath a medallion of Louis XV an inscription in Latin verse of the famous Santeuil. It was translated into French by P. Corneille.
These pumps repaired at various times including in 1678, 1708 and 1795. The first pump stopped working in 1786. The second, adopted in 1858 was demolished in 1861.
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The Tuileries Palace was a palace in Paris, whose construction began in 1564 under the leadership of Catherine de Medici to the site previously occupied by tile factories. Expanded under the successive reigns, he had a huge front (266 m long) and became a royal residence of many kings, Henri IV, Louis XIV, Louis XVI or Louis XVIII, then Imperial (Napoleon I and Napoleon III) until 'to its destruction by fire in May 1871. Its ruins were demolished in 1882.
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