
Sujet
Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt, 1809. Creator: Dominique Vivant Denon (French, 1747-1825).
Légende
Holy Family on the Flight into Egypt, 1809. Lithography was discovered in 1798 in Germany by Alois Senefelder (1771-1834), whose efforts to find an inexpensive method to reproduce the text of his plays accidentally led to a new and revolutionary way of printing. Although lithographs were almost immediately produced in Germany and England, the artists of France were the first to appreciate the aesthetic potentialities of this most flexible, responsive, and personal medium. In 1806, one of Napoleon's generals, Baron Lejeune, an amateur painter, was impressed by the technique while in Munich. Upon his return to Paris, he succeeded in introducing a few artists to the method, and by 1811 Denon's studio had become a fashionable center of lithography for amateurs.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19F86_001
Model release
NA
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Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
53,6Mo (2,8Mo) / 34,1cm x 39,4cm / 4030 x 4648 (300dpi)