1878 Wood Engraving - Large Antique Print

Titles: LAZZARONE - THE REVERIE - THE GRIMACE

Lazzarone, From The Statue By Q. Corbellini - The Reverie, From The Painting By G. Jacquet - The Grimace, From The Statue By E. Butti

Excerpts from an old descriptive: "The 'Lazzarone,' by Q. Corbellini, of Milan, is one of two figures sent to Paris by its author, the other being 'The First Bath.' The 'Grimace' is the only work exposed by E. Butti, also of Milan. In 'The Grimace,' Signor Butti shows us a standing boy of five, clothed in an old hat of heavy straw, and one indescribable garment. Throwing his toy at his feet, he holds up a hand-mirror, of which he has become possessed, and makes faces in the glass, at the same time drawing down his flat brim sideways over his cheek. His notion of making up a face is derived, without his knowing it, from an endless line of ancestors, and probably traces back to the time before his aryan forefathers left their home under the Himalayas. He makes his grimace by thrusting forth his tongue. This grimace of the lolling tongue is found in the rudest art of classical antiquity, when the sculptor wanted to give the idea of something horrible. It is the faces of Typhon in Cyprus carvings of immeasurable age, so old that they resemble the Egyptian...."

"The figure named 'Reverie' seems to resume the preoccupation and absorption of an epoch; one would say the nineteenth century, so little satisfied with itself, dreaming of the age of chivalry or the age of paradise. But that it is in a sitting posture it might be Poe's 'Helen' in the window-niche, suggesting and almost realizing 'the beauty that was Greece and the glory that was Rome.'"

Approximate Image Size: 8 1/4 x 13 1/4 inches - Separately each image is: Lazzarone, 4 X 8 1/2 inches - Reverie, 4 3/4 X 8 1/4 inches - Grimace, 4 X 8 1/2 inches.

Approximate Overall Size: 11 X 16 1/2 inches

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