LANDSCAPE Solitude Brook Trees Ducklings - 1883 Antique Print after A. Allonge

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print Specifics: Type of print: A Heliogravure reproduction by Messrs. Goupil of the original charcoal drawing 'A Lowland Brook' by Auguste Alolong Year of printing: 1883 Publisher: Philip G. Hamerton, Seeley, Jackson & Halliday, Fleet Street, London Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 9 x 13.5 inches (23 x 34 cm), include blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavy - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin). Reverse side: Blank Note: 1. Green 'border' around the print in the photo is the contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print. Original Narrative: THIS drawing has been reproduced by Messrs. Goupil's wonderful process, which renders with truth the crumbling quality of charcoal and the ear, sharp lines of an engraving with the burin. It so faithful in the imitation of texture that drawigs reproduced by its means are, for educational rposes, practically equivalent to the originals. The subject of this one is extremely simple. A few large masses of foliage, light and dark, two principal spaces of water, and a delicate sky, constitute almost the whole picture. This simplicity of subject is common to many of M. Allonge's works. He enjoys the reputation of being one of the three or four leading landscape fusinistes in France, standing in the same rank as Lalanne. The modern processes of reproduction have made charcoal drawings so widely known, when they are of first-rate quality, that a painter who practises charcoal much runs the risk of being generally spoken of as a fusiniste, however regularly he may work with his brush. This has happened to M. Allonge. His work in the more widely disseminated art is more generally associated with his name than his work as a painter, though the latter has been equally studious and persistent. Auguste Allonge was born in Paris in 1833. He began to study art in 1850, after having received a general education. He was a pupil of Cogniet, but studied also at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, which he entered in 1852, winning a medal there in the year following. Having contended for the Prix de Rome in 1855, in historic landscape, he came second, and the same year he exhibited at the Universal Exhibition. Since that year he has never missed a single salon in Paris, having always regularly exhibited both pictures and drawings. Allonge's pictures have been three times purchased by the State, and are now in the museums of Havre, St. Quentin, and Puy-en-Velay. He received a first-class medal in 1866 at the exhibition of fine arts applied to industry, and eighteen medals (gold, silver, and bronze) at different exhibitions in France and other countries. In 1880 M. Allonge received the University decoration of an Officier d" Academic. Many of this artist's pictures and drawings are taken from the interesting and picturesque region about Avallon, in the Morvan, where he lived for some time. Few landscape - painters have had a more single - minded love for nature. As to the quality of his work, French critics sometimes accuse it of being too obviously skilful, a fault which many less able artists would be happy to see laid to their charge. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

Price: 22.5 USD

Location: Manassas, Virginia

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