Author: After Gigoux, Jean-Francois (French, 1806-1894); Adolphe Mouilleron (Lithographer)
Title: La Jeune Fille Et la Mort. Plate 92, from Les Artistes Anciens Et Modernes
Description: Paris: Bertauts, circa 1850. Lithograph on grey chine colle, with margins. 17 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (sheet). With the drystamp of Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes. Very Good. Light toning along sheet edges. Jean Francois Gigoux (1806-1894), painter, printmaker, and illustrator, was born on January 8, 1806, in Besancon, France and he first studied at l’Academie de Besancon. In 1828 Gigoux went to Paris and enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he studied under Theodore Gericault and Camille Corot. Gigoux was foremost a portrait and history painter and he holds a distinguished place among the painters of the Romantic School. He also worked in woodcut and etching but he was quite facile with the lithographic crayon and is noted for his romantic and passionate portraits in the medium. In 1842 Gigoux became a chevalier in the Legion of Honor and was named an officer of the Legion in 1880. He was the last love of countess Eveline Hansak, the widow of French novelist Honore de Balzac. Gigoux dies December 31, 1894 at the age of eighty-eight. .
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Title: La Jeune Fille Et la Mort. Plate 92, from Les Artistes Anciens Et Modernes
Description: Paris: Bertauts, circa 1850. Lithograph on grey chine colle, with margins. 17 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (sheet). With the drystamp of Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes. Very Good. Light toning along sheet edges. Jean Francois Gigoux (1806-1894), painter, printmaker, and illustrator, was born on January 8, 1806, in Besancon, France and he first studied at l’Academie de Besancon. In 1828 Gigoux went to Paris and enrolled in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he studied under Theodore Gericault and Camille Corot. Gigoux was foremost a portrait and history painter and he holds a distinguished place among the painters of the Romantic School. He also worked in woodcut and etching but he was quite facile with the lithographic crayon and is noted for his romantic and passionate portraits in the medium. In 1842 Gigoux became a chevalier in the Legion of Honor and was named an officer of the Legion in 1880. He was the last love of countess Eveline Hansak, the widow of French novelist Honore de Balzac. Gigoux dies December 31, 1894 at the age of eighty-eight. .
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Price: US$ 75.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 71-4654
- Book number: 71-4654
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