CONDITION: SINGLE PAGE PRINT BLANK ON THE BACK . Excellent Condition. Image is clean, clear, sharp with beautiful detail. As scanned. This beautiful print would look great matted and framed. Or an art supply store can provide you with a selection of frames for old art treasures.

ABOUT THE ARTIST: LOUIS JACQUES DURAMEAU - Judged '' troubadour '' before the letter, Durameau inaugurated the changes of the painting of history under Louis XVI. The study explains the original contribution of the artist, without neglecting his many decorations and its role of guard of the tables of the king under the Revolution. Rediscovered by Goncourt with the Part of charts (Paris, Museum of Louvre), one of the drawings of reference of the XVIIIe century, L. - J. Durameau belongs to a generation hinge, still too ignored French painting. Raise of Pierre and of Carle Vanloo, it was regarded as a promising artist by Diderot, which rented its '' fire '' and its imagination. Religious painter in the continuation of Deshays, rembranesque portraitist '' '', he was also a draughtsman of kind, observer like Saint-Aubin, of Parisian life: Fit with body outgoing Tileries (Besancon, museum of the Art schools), or translator of the one of the first manifestations of the industrial age: Salpêtrière (Paris, museum of Louvre). (...) But one of the most eloquent demonstrations of the art of Durameau remains its talent of painter of ceilings. With that of Royal Opera of Versailles, for the marriage of the Dolphin and of Marie-Antoinette, it recut the most prestigious decorative ordering of its time. The originality of the artist, sometimes enigmatic, but with the multiple talents, deserved to find its true place during the time of change of the French painting, which preceded the advent by David. Work connected, 350 illustrations including 50 colors. Association with nonlucrative goal, ARTHENA has the aim of publishing works of history of art in scientific matter.

ABOUT THE PRINT: MONOTONE DRAWING