Ancien Master haute qualité Print-LA CHANSON DU ROSSIGNOL-Martinet-Calix-1863

Product Name: Ancien Master haute qualité Print-LA CHANSON DU ROSSIGNOL-Martinet-Calix-1863
Date of Creation：1800-1899 Listed By：Dealer or Reseller Subject：Figures Height (Inches)：27.56 Width (Inches)：21.46 Print haute qualité Surface：Paper Type：Print Artist：Alphonse Martinet, Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix Material：Mezzotint Year of Production：1863

LE CHANT DU ROSSIGNOL.

Plate : Le Chant du Rossignol. The nightingales song: romantic night scene with group of seven young men and women gathered in a park, at the bottom of a flight of steps, and gazing at the moon

Made by Alphonse Martinet after Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix.

Medium: etching and mezzotint engraving on wove paper.

Sheet size: 54.5 x 70 cm (21.46 x 27.56 inch). Image size: 43.5 x 58 cm. (17.13 x 22.83 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Several repaired tears in het margins, one barely extending into image. A few small spots in the margins. Allmost everything will frame out nicely. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

THE NIGHTINGALES SONG-ROSSIGNOL | DP-A1-002-13

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This original antique print was published in 1863. Artists and Engravers: This plate engraved by Alphonse Martinet after Compte Calix.

Biography engraver: Alphonse Martinet (1821-1861) was a French engraver, student of Sixdeniers, P. Delaroche and Achille Martinet.

Biography artist: Francois-Claudius Compte-Calix, a French painter of genre subjects and portraits, was born at Lyons in 1813. He studied in the fine art school of his native city, and in the studio of J. C. Bonnefond, and first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1840..