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Portrait of Count Platoff - Original Lithograph - 1923

1923

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...

Portrait of Ludwig Van Beethoven is an artwork realized in 1920 ca. by Max Wulff. Black and white lithograph. Not signed.

Frederic Lepia is an original Lithograph realized by D. M. Raffet in 1848. Good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout. Denis Auguste Marie Raffet (2 March 1804 –...

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

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...

France circa 1820 Portrait of a gentleman Black chalk and pastel on paper 12 x 10 cm In its original mount, modern oak frame : 25 x 22.5 cm

"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...

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...