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Saints and Devotion
A Monk before Christ in Glory, Antique Chromolithograph, 1849
Anno Domini MDCCCXLIX1849
£185
$245 · €220
Original print, not a reproduction
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- Date
- 1849
- Sheet size
- 11 × 8.3 in (28 × 21 cm)
- Technique
- Chromolithograph
- Coloring
- Printed color
- Condition
- Good. Even age toning. Handling soiling along the bottom, right and top edges. Scattered light foxing in the margin. All four corners complete.
- Faith
- Christianity
- Collection
- Saints and Devotion
- Era
- 1800 to 1849, Travellers and the costume books
- Stock no.
- BG-12228-2-36
What the condition grades mean
- Excellent
- Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
- Very good
- Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
- Good
- Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
- Fair
- Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
A kneeling monk in a white habit, his hands raised, looks up to a figure of God the Father who appears above him in a blue mantle within a halo of gold rays; an angel with outstretched wings fills the upper left and a dense gold acanthus border frames the whole. The sheet is lettered simply as taken from the original then belonging to Monsieur Guenebault in Paris, so the manuscript was in private hands when the plate was drawn.
Le Moyen Age et la Renaissance was issued in Paris between 1848 and 1851 in five volumes under the literary direction of Paul Lacroix and the artistic direction of Ferdinand Sere. This plate belongs to the second volume, dated 1849. Its chromolithographs were drawn from the originals by artists sent into the libraries and collections of France, Belgium and Germany, and printed by Lemercier of Paris or by Engelmann et Graf.
Devotional miniatures of a donor kneeling before a vision are the most personal images the Middle Ages produced, and they suit a quiet room or a chapel. The gold ground and the heavy acanthus make the sheet rich without being busy. It hangs well alone as a single medieval image.
Even age toning. Handling soiling along the bottom, right and top edges. Scattered light foxing in the margin. All four corners complete.
This is an original antique print, not a modern reproduction. This item is sold unframed.
