Academic Art
ACADEMIC STYLE
During the Renaissance, the first European fine art academies were established in Italy and would guide the style and standards of visual culture in the following centuries. Academic art became dominant across the continent in the 17th century, with artists coming together to offer instruction in this style of painting and sculpture.
The academic art period represented a significant change from the previous era when painters, sculptors and other artists were part of guilds and seen more as artisans than purveyors of culture. While patronage from the elite and the church remained pivotal, young artists were able to support themselves for the first time through academic exhibitions and an independent marketplace. The leading academies included the French Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture founded in Paris in 1648 (which became the Académie des Beaux-Arts after the French Revolution) and the London Royal Academy of Arts formed in 1768 under the inaugural leadership of painter Joshua Reynolds.
Academy students sketched drawings based on prints, sculptures and, finally, live models. Movements including neoclassicism and romanticism were particularly popular in these art schools and institutions where the influence of Raphael and Nicolas Poussin was prominent. Beaux Arts architecture and furniture design drew on these movements, too, and, as they also originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts, the disciplines share common ground with academic painting and sculpture.
Although academic art was a major shift for artistic status when it began, by the middle of the 19th century it was viewed as stodgy and resistant to new ideas, with the subject matter of artists such as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jean-Léon Gérôme generally limited to allegorical or mythological themes. Impressionism, realism and the other movements that engaged with contemporary issues that followed were direct reactions to the academic tradition, although it continued to inform the avant-garde as artists like Gustav Klimt and Pablo Picasso started their practices as academic realists.
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Style: Academic
Period: 19th Century
"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne), " Print after Drawing by Adolphe Willette
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"VALMY! (L'Estampe Moderne)" is a print watermarked PL BAS after a drawing by Adolphe Willette. It depicts a general with his army and a young girl.
15 3/4" x 12" art
23" x 19 1/4" frame
Adolphe Léon Willette (30 July 1857 – 4 February 1926) was a French painter, illustrator, caricaturist, and lithographer, as well as an architect of the famous Moulin Rouge cabaret. Willette ran as an "anti-semitic" candidate in the 9th arrondisement of Paris for the September 1889 legislative elections.
Biography
Willette was born in Châlons-sur-Marne.
He studied for four years at the École des Beaux-Arts under Cabanel, training which gave him a unique position among the graphic humorists of France. Whether comedy or tragedy, dainty triviality or political satire, his work is instinct with the profound sincerity of the artist. He set Pierrot upon a lofty pedestal among the imaginary heroes of France, and established Mimi Pinson, frail, lovable, and essentially good-hearted, in the affections of the nation.
Willette is at once the modern Watteau of the pencil, and the exponent of sentiments that move the more emotional section of the public. Always a poet, and usually gay, fresh, and delicate, in his presentation of idylls exquisitely dainty and characteristically Gallic, illustrating the more "charming" side of love, often pure and sometimes extremely materialistic. Willette frequently reveals himself bitter and fierce, even ferocious, in his hatreds, being a violent though at the same time a generous partisan of political ideas, furiously compassionate with love and pity for the people whether they be ground down under the heel of political oppression, or are merely the victims ot unrequited love, suffering all the pangs of graceful anguish that are born of scornful treatment. There is charm even in his thrilling apotheosis of the guillotine, and in the introduction into his caricatures of the figure of Death itself.
The artist was a prolific contributor to the French illustrated press under the pseudonyms "Cemoi", "Pierrot", "Louison", "Bebe", and "Nox", but more often under his own name. He illustrated Melandri's Les Pierrots and Les Giboulles d'avril, Le Courrier français, and published his own Pauvre Pierrot and other works, in which he tells his stories in scenes in the manner of Busch. He decorated several "brasseries artistiques" with wall-paintings, stained glass, &c., notably Le Chat noir and La Palette d'or, and he painted the highly imaginative ceiling for La Cigale...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Black and White
Paintings 19th Century Flowers Still life
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GODCHAUX Emile (1860)
Big Compositions of Flowers in Pair
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frames gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas (each) : 90 X 129 cm
Dim frame (each) : 118 x 159 cm
Certificate of authenticity
GODCHAUX Emile (1860 - nc)
French School - XIXth century
Born in 1860
Painter of genre scenes, landscapes, waterscapes, marines, flowers, still lives. He sold his paintings on the public place, and sometimes in Lotteries. He is related to Alfred Godchaux...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
"Young Woman with Headdress"
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a late 19th century needlepoint, petitepoint and beaded portrait of a young woman. It is a highly detailed and meticulously crafted beaded portrait wi...
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Other Medium
Solen. Plate 33. (Shells)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
WILLIAM WOOD
General Conchology;
or, a Description of Shells,
arranged according to the Linnean System
John Booth. London, 1835.
Engravings with Original Hand-Color
Tall Oc...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Tellina Plate 37 (Shells)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
WILLIAM WOOD
General Conchology;
or, a Description of Shells,
arranged according to the Linnean System
John Booth. London, 1815.
Engravings with Original Hand-Color
Tall Oc...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving, Watercolor
Cardium Plate 56 (Shells)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
WILLIAM WOOD
General Conchology;
or, a Description of Shells,
arranged according to the Linnean System
John Booth. London, 1815.
Engravings with Original Hand-Color
Tall Oc...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Cardium. Plate 53 (Shells)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
WILLIAM WOOD
General Conchology;
or, a Description of Shells,
arranged according to the Linnean System
John Booth. London, 1815.
Engravings with Original Hand-Color
Tall Oc...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Untitled [Modern Interior]
By Eugène Atget
Located in New York, NY
Gelatin silver print made by Berenice Abbott
Signed in pencil by Berenice Abbott, verso
10 x 8 inches, sheet size
9.25 x 7 inches, image size
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, l...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
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'A Summer Repast at the House of Lucullus', large oil painting by Boulanger
By Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger
Located in London, GB
This beautiful painting was created in 1877 by the well-known French painter, Gustave Clarence Rodolphe Boulanger. Boulanger often produced work which combined the classical and Orie...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hors d'Oeuvre
By Jules Gouffe
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Jules Gouffe (1807-1877)
Le Livre de Cusine
Librairie Hachette et Cie
Paris, 1867
Chromolithographs
At the age of 16, Jules Gouffe found his calling as a student of the famous...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Woman Carrying Purse, " Watercolor & Graphite on Paper by Hannah de Rothschild
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Woman Carrying Purse" is an original watercolor and graphite drawing by Hannah de Rothschild. This artwork features a woman with a handbag. She is wearing a blue dress, and her face...
Category
1860s Academic Art
Materials
Graphite, Watercolor
Psyche. Sultan. Dark Brahma Pullet & Cockerel. (Chickens)
By J.W. Ludlow
Located in Florham Park, NJ
The Book of Poultry
J. W. Ludlow, artist
Lewis Wright (1838-1905), editor
Cassell, Petter & Galpin
London, Paris, New York, 1880
Vincent Brooks Day & Son
Chromolithography
10....
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ondontoglossum Phalaenopsis
By Jean Linden
Located in Florham Park, NJ
L'Illistration Horticole
Jean Linden (1817-1898)
Belgium, 1887
Chromolithographs
“Orchid Fever” was not just a 19th century phenomenon. To this day the orchid has remained on...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ikebana - Carnations and Astilbe
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Ikebana
Japanese Woodblocks.
Meiji Period. Circa 1895.
A disciplined art form, Ikebana seeks to bring nature and man together. The emphasis is on form and simplicity of design...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Woodcut
Canvasback Duck
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ALEXANDER POPE (1849-1924)
Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States
20 Chromolithographs, 14” x 20” Unframed
Scribner’s Sons, New York
1877-78
Alexander Pope was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1849. As he he grew up his interests and talents both matured in painting, wood carving and sculpture. The lure of nature led him to combine his abilities to better create a realistic image. He is said to be the first man to paint game birds carved from wood. Two of his painted carvings were purchased by the Czar of Russia...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Redhead (Duck)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ALEXANDER POPE (1849-1924)
Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States
20 Chromolithographs, 14” x 20” Unframed
Scribner’s Sons, New York
1877-78
Alexander Pope wa...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pears LXXXII
Located in Florham Park, NJ
This piece would pair well with Brookshaw's "Peaches XXVI" which is also listed.
GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823).
Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits….
En...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Tape, Handmade Paper, Plexiglass, Watercolor
Vicinity of Flemington
By Julius Bien
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JULIUS BIEN (1826-1909)
Bien Atlas of New Jersey.
Geological Survey of New Jersey.
Chromolithography.
New York, 1883 - 1889
17 maps. 34” x 25” Paper Size.
A lithographer and map engraver, Bien arrived in the United States in 1849. Born in Naumburg, Germany, he was schooled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel and at the Stadel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main. He participated in the political upheavals of 1848 and was forced to leave his country after the movement was crushed becoming one of the many talented German "forty-eighters" to begin life anew in America.
From a tiny print shop in New York City, Bien built a hugely successful business. He received numerous awards for the maps he engraved for the Pacific Railroad surveys, for several decennial census reports and for many US Geological Survey atlases and military field maps. He was also the first president of the National Lithographers' Association.
Geological atlases were elemental in the development of states in both population and commerce. Here is where Bien shines with comprehensive understanding of science and his unparelled technique in printing. Among the most collectible of historic maps, these surveys provided landmark research in building a nation.
Bien's second magnum opus was his chromolithographic edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned both to reproduce the quality of Havell's aquatints and to capture the subtlety of Audubon's colors. The ambitious project was never completed. Some historians blame the Civil War while other suggest financial cheating, but probably it was the death of Audubon that terminated Bien's work.
For more than forty years following the Audubon folio...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Sparrow Hawk, " Original Color Lithograph by an American artist
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Sparrow Hawk" is an original color lithograph by an unknown American artist. It depicts a bird perching on the limb of a tree, its young poking out of th...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Initial Letters "J" (Alphabet)
By Owen Jones
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE INITIAL LETTERS
Owen Jones (1806-1889)
Day & Sons
London, 1864
Chromolithographs
One Thousand and One Initial Letters playfully describes an artistic e...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Painting 19th Century Flowers
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
TESSIER Louis Adolphe (1858-1915)Flowers
Oil on canvas signed low right and dated 1893
Old original frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 53 X 67 cm
Dim frame : 78 X 91 cm
Certificat...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Bernicla rufficollis... (Red Breasted Goose)
By John Gould
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN GOULD (1804-1881)
Birds of Great Britain
Drawn and lithographed by John Gould, Elizabeth Gould,
H.C. Richter, W. Hart, Dr. Sharpe, and...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Buffle Head Duck
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ALEXANDER POPE (1849-1924)
Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States
20 Chromolithographs, 14” x 20” Unframed
Scribner’s Sons, New York
1877-78
Alexander Pope was born in Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1849. As he he grew up his interests and talents both matured in painting, wood carving and sculpture. The lure of nature led him to combine his abilities to better create a realistic image. He is said to be the first man to paint game birds carved from wood. Two of his painted carvings were purchased by the Czar of Russia...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Initial Letters "Y" (Alphabet)
By Owen Jones
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE INITIAL LETTERS
Owen Jones (1806-1889)
Day & Sons
London, 1864
Chromolithographs
One Thousand and One Initial Letters playfully describes an artistic e...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bernacle Goose
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON.
BIRDS OF AMERICA
from Drawings Made in the United States
and Their Territories.
Lithographed, colored, and printed by J. T. Bowen. Philadelphia.
Published b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph, Handmade Paper, Archival Tape
“Cottage”
Located in Southampton, NY
Graphite and watercolor on paper stock drawing by the Russian Federation artist, Carl Ivanovitch Kollmann. Circa 1830. Condition: Good. Actual drawing diameter is 6.5 inches. Impr...
Category
1830s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Graphite, Watercolor
Transport: One Litter
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Yosha Zuko Fuzu
Meiji 33 (1900)
Writer: Kosugi Onson, Imaizumi Teisuke
Publisher: Yoshikawa Hanshichi
The Japanese litters and palanquins are much more than a practical vehicle...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Woodcut
Cateleya Maximum Lindl. var. Hruryanna (Orchid)
By Jean Linden
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Iconographie des Orchidees
Jean Linden (1817-1898)
Brussels, 1885-1894
Chromolithographs
“Orchid Fever” was not just a 19th century phenomenon. To this day the orchid has rem...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Archival Tape, Silk, Rag Paper, Plexiglass, Archival Paper
Cherries. Plate IX.
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823).
Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits….
Engravers R. Brookshaw and H. Merke.
London, 1812.
Aquatint and stipple engravings...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Engraving
Cattelya Maxima
By Jean Linden
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Iconographie des Orchidees
Jean Linden (1817-1898)
Brussels, 1885-1894
Chromolithographs
“Orchid Fever” was not just a 19th century phenomenon. To this day the orchid has rem...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pears LXXXII
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823).
Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits….
Engravers R. Brookshaw and H. Merke.
London, 1812.
Aquatint and stipple engravings...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Tape, Handmade Paper, Plexiglass, Rag Paper, Si...
Dendrobium X Ainsworth (Orchid)
By Jean Linden
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Iconographie des Orchidees
Jean Linden (1817-1898)
Brussels, 1885-1894
Chromolithographs
“Orchid Fever” was not just a 19th century phenomenon. To this day the orchid has rem...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Silk, Rag Paper, Plexiglass, Archival Tape
“Home Life”
Located in Southampton, NY
Watercolor on paper by the Swiss artist, Simon Daniel Lafond. Signed and dated lower right, 1820. In very good condition, wth minor toning. Colors are strong with incredible detail ...
Category
1820s Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Plate 91. Apples.
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823).
Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits….
Engravers R. Brookshaw and H. Merke.
London, 1812.
Aquatint and stipple engravings...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Egg Harbor and Vicinity (New Jersey)
By Julius Bien
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JULIUS BIEN (1826-1909)
Bien Atlas of New Jersey.
Geological Survey of New Jersey.
Chromolithography.
New York, 1883 - 1889
17 maps. 34” x 25” Paper Size.
A lithographer and map engraver, Bien arrived in the United States in 1849. Born in Naumburg, Germany, he was schooled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel and at the Stadel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main. He participated in the political upheavals of 1848 and was forced to leave his country after the movement was crushed becoming one of the many talented German "forty-eighters" to begin life anew in America.
From a tiny print shop in New York City, Bien built a hugely successful business. He received numerous awards for the maps he engraved for the Pacific Railroad surveys, for several decennial census reports and for many US Geological Survey atlases and military field maps. He was also the first president of the National Lithographers' Association.
Geological atlases were elemental in the development of states in both population and commerce. Here is where Bien shines with comprehensive understanding of science and his unparelled technique in printing. Among the most collectible of historic maps, these surveys provided landmark research in building a nation.
Bien's second magnum opus was his chromolithographic edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned both to reproduce the quality of Havell's aquatints and to capture the subtlety of Audubon's colors. The ambitious project was never completed. Some historians blame the Civil War while other suggest financial cheating, but probably it was the death of Audubon that terminated Bien's work.
For more than forty years following the Audubon folio...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Black-Faced Heath Breed
By David Low
Located in Florham Park, NJ
David Low (1786-1859)
The Breeds of the Domestic Animals of the British Isles
William Nicholson, RSA, Illustrator
Brown, Green, & Longman’s, Publisher
London, 1842
Lithographs with Original Hand-Color
Page Size, 12.5 x 17
“Professor Low...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Transport: Oxcart with 14 Men
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Yosha Zuko Fuzu
Meiji 33 (1900)
Writer: Kosugi Onson, Imaizumi Teisuke
Publisher: Yoshikawa Hanshichi
The Japanese litters and palanquins are much more than a practical vehicle...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Woodcut
Canada Otter
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
John Bachman
The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
Published by V.G. Audubon
Lithograph with Original Hand-Coloring
New York 1849, 1851, 1854, 1870. Roy...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
London (England)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Late 19th Century map of London highlighting the city's marvels. Serving also as a mundane street map, this map provides ample information on the bustling metropolis of London. Show are Buckingham Palace, Royal Botanic...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Painting 19th Century Landscape Antique Ruins
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
BACHMANN Alfred Félix August (1863-1956)
Walking by the Antique Ruins
Oil on canvas signed low right
Frame gilded with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 54 X 65 ...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Oil
Marmor
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ARCHIV FUR ORNAMENTALE KUNST.
M. Gropius, L. Lohde, P. Lehfeldt.
Lithographs with Later Hand-Color.
Berlin, 1870.
13” x 19” Unframed.
A fine German work, the illustrations a...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Relief von Gerb Thon
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ARCHIV FUR ORNAMENTALE KUNST.
M. Gropius, L. Lohde, P. Lehfeldt.
Lithographs with Later Hand-Color.
Berlin, 1870.
13” x 19” Unframed.
A fine German work, the illustrations are of classical and neo-classical decorative designs. The acanthus leaf, Greco-Roman busts, mythical animals and ornamental relief show the preferred style of architectural ornament over the centuries and from country to country. A trick of the lithographer was to use the occasional solid ground to give better dimension to the plate. Measuring 19” x 13”, many designs include a scale to show actual size. Only two of the 72 illustrations were printed in full color, another pair in sepia tones, and six in burnt orange and black to show typical Etruscan designs. Several have toned backgrounds. It has been the fashion to apply hand coloring to black and white engravings and lithographs for centuries. The superb condition can be attributed to the individual paper guards placed between each plate.
Many of the pieces illustrated are in museums; i.e. a Greek painted portrait medallion is preserved in the Classical Museum in Vienna (Plate 35) and the carved stone pedestal supports for a Roman table...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Night Fishing at Saint Maurice
By Emile Noirot
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "Emile Noirot 1893" at lower right
overall dimensions, including frame, are 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 inches
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Brant Goose
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ALEXANDER POPE (1849-1924)
Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States
20 Chromolithographs, 14” x 20” Unframed
Scribner’s Sons, New York
1877-78
Alexander Pope wa...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gemaltes Ornament. (Etruscan Vase Design),
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ARCHIV FUR ORNAMENTALE KUNST.
M. Gropius, L. Lohde, P. Lehfeldt.
Chromolithograph.
Berlin, 1870.
13” x 19” Unframed.
A fine German work by, the illustrations are of classical and neo-classical decorative designs. The acanthus leaf, Greco-Roman busts, mythical animals and ornamental relief show the preferred style of architectural ornament over the centuries and from country to country. A trick of the lithographer was to use the occasional solid ground to give better dimension to the plate. Measuring 19” x 13”, many designs include a scale to show actual size. Only two of the 72 illustrations were printed in full color, another pair in sepia tones, and six in burnt orange and black to show typical Etruscan designs. Several have toned backgrounds. It has been the fashion to apply hand coloring to black and white engravings and lithographs for centuries. The superb condition can be attributed to the individual paper guards placed between each plate.
Many of the pieces illustrated are in museums; i.e. a Greek painted portrait medallion is preserved in the Classical Museum...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Scaup
Located in Florham Park, NJ
ALEXANDER POPE (1849-1924)
Upland Game Birds and Water Fowl of the United States
20 Chromolithographs, 14” x 20” Unframed
Scribner’s Sons, New York
1877-78
Alexander Pope wa...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Archival Tape, Wood, Plexiglass, Handmade Paper, Archival Paper
Construction #2
Located in Florham Park, NJ
FUGAKU HYAKKEI
(Views of Mt. Fuji)
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849)
Woodblock Print
1834-5 Edo period
It signifies the long history and the aspirations of the race; it is a tok...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Woodcut
Dept. De La Seine (Paris)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
VICTOR LEVASSEUR (1800-1870)
Atlas national Illustre des 86 Departements
et des Possessions de La France.
Paris, 1847.
Lemercier.
Laguillermie et Rainaud, Schmitt, A Piat, et al...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Bergen, Hudson, and Essex
By Julius Bien
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JULIUS BIEN (1826-1909)
Bien Atlas of New Jersey.
Geological Survey of New Jersey.
Chromolithography.
New York, 1883 - 1889
17 maps. 34” x 25” Paper Size.
A lithographer and map engraver, Bien arrived in the United States in 1849. Born in Naumburg, Germany, he was schooled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kassel and at the Stadel Art Institute in Frankfurt am Main. He participated in the political upheavals of 1848 and was forced to leave his country after the movement was crushed becoming one of the many talented German "forty-eighters" to begin life anew in America.
From a tiny print shop in New York City, Bien built a hugely successful business. He received numerous awards for the maps he engraved for the Pacific Railroad surveys, for several decennial census reports and for many US Geological Survey atlases and military field maps. He was also the first president of the National Lithographers' Association.
Geological atlases were elemental in the development of states in both population and commerce. Here is where Bien shines with comprehensive understanding of science and his unparelled technique in printing. Among the most collectible of historic maps, these surveys provided landmark research in building a nation.
Bien's second magnum opus was his chromolithographic edition of John James Audubon's The Birds of America. Through the new medium of chromolithography Bien was commissioned both to reproduce the quality of Havell's aquatints and to capture the subtlety of Audubon's colors. The ambitious project was never completed. Some historians blame the Civil War while other suggest financial cheating, but probably it was the death of Audubon that terminated Bien's work.
For more than forty years following the Audubon folio...
Category
Late 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Peaches XXVI
Located in Florham Park, NJ
This piece would pair well with Brookshaw's "Pears LXXXII" which is also listed.
GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823).
Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits….
En...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Tape, Handmade Paper, Plexiglass, Rag Paper, Wa...
Snow Goose
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON.
BIRDS OF AMERICA
from Drawings Made in the United States
and Their Territories.
Lithographed, colored, and printed by J. T. Bowen. Philadelphia.
Published b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph, Handmade Paper, Archival Tape, Archival Paper
Harris's Buzzard
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON.
BIRDS OF AMERICA
from Drawings Made in the United States
and Their Territories.
Lithographed, colored, and printed by J. T. Bowen. Philadelphia.
Published b...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Jeux de fillettes a Laghouat - Original litograph (1897/98)
Located in Paris, FR
E. Dinet
Jeux de fillettes a Laghouat
Original litograph
Platesigned
1897/98
Printed on paper Vélin
Size 31 x 40 cm (c. 12 x 16")
INFORMATION : Published by 'Estampe Moderne, Par...
Category
1890s Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
London (England)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
Highly detailed street map of late 19th Century London. Each street is named as are gardens, parks, bodies of water, and important buildings. A magnifying glass is recommended.
Category
19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Rocky Mountain Neotoma. (Pack Rat)
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
John Bachman
The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
Published by V.G. Audubon
Lithograph with Original Hand-Coloring
New York 1854. Royal Octavo Edition
...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
Plate 88. Apples.
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823).
Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits….
Engravers R. Brookshaw and H. Merke.
London, 1812.
Aquatint and stipple engravings...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Engraving
Pennant's Marlon or Fischer
Located in Florham Park, NJ
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
John Bachman
The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
Published by V.G. Audubon
Lithograph with Original Hand-Coloring
New York 1849, 1851, 1854, 1870. Roy...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Peaches XXXIV
Located in Florham Park, NJ
GEORGE BROOKSHAW (1751 – 1823).
Pomona Britannica of a Collection of the Most Esteemed Fruits….
Engravers R. Brookshaw and H. Merke.
London, 1812.
Aquatint and stipple engravings...
Category
Early 19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor, Archival Tape, Gesso, Handmade Paper, Plexig...
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