Benjamin Roubaud

Portrait of Charles Phi - Lithograph by Benjamin Roubaud - 19th Century

19th Century

Le Comte De G is a lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier Gavarni, 1804-1866) in the mid-19th Century. S...

Le Comte De N is a lithograph on ivory-colored paper, realized by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier Gavarni, 1804-1866) in the mid-19th Century. S...

Portrait of Henri Malinvaud is an original artwork realized in 1848 by French artist Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (1804 – 1860) Lithograph print. Signed on the plate. Very good c...

M.A.Cadart is a black and white etching realized by Théodule Ribot (1823-1891)  in 1870s. Titled in the lower. Image size: 18cmx26cm. Very Good condition. Signed in the lower lef...

Portrait of Giacomo Meyerbeer by Le Gout-Gérard – 19th Century Lithograph, circa 1855 This refined lithograph portrays the renowned 19th-century German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer (1...

Medium: lithograph (after the 1878 Adolphe Monticelli painting). Printed in Paris on Arches paper at the Mourlot studio in 1973 in an edition of 1000 for the Collection Pierre Lévy d...

Wilhelm Taubert, German (1811 - 1891) - Portrait of Nehemias Anton Nobel, Year: circa 1900, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Image Size: 13 x 11 inches, Size: 18 x 14 in. (4...

"Portrait of Baron Mayer de Rothschild, Rothschild Collection" by Oscar Gustave Rejlander is done in ink wash on paper. It is framed and matted. The portrait is a bust of Baron Mayer de Rothschild of the Rothschild banking dynasty, who lived 1813-1874. Art size: 11 3/4" x 8 3/4" Frame size: 20" x 17" "Rejlander, Oscar Gustav (1813-75), Swedish-born photographer, active in England and often known as ‘the father of art photography’, having pioneered practices such as combination printing and promoted photography's capacity to tackle subjects conventionally associated with painting. After studying lithography and painting in Rome, Rejlander arrived in England in the early 1840s and settled in Wolverhampton. A day's instruction with Nicolaas Henneman was apparently his only training before he turned to photography in 1853. Throughout his professional career, Rejlander combined studio portrait work and other commissions with particular artistic projects, importing ideas and inspiration from such sources as Flemish and late Renaissance art, 18th-century English narrative works, or contemporary cartoons from papers like Punch. His famous moral allegory The Two Ways of Life (1857) combines sophisticated combination printing with elaborately staged photographs. Although widely condemned as indecent—in Scotland only the ‘virtuous’ side of the picture could be shown—it was bought by Queen Victoria for Prince Albert. Rejlander vigorously defended photography's narrative capability, emphasizing artifice as a way to truth and creative expression, and works like Hard Times and The Dream (both 1860) convey unconscious states hauntingly and in a precociously modern way. In 1862 he left Wolverhampton for a London studio, where judiciously placed windows enabled him to create subtle lighting effects for portraiture. Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alfred...