CONDITION: Clear and sharp with beautiful detail. As scanned. Blank on the back. Heavier paper. 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.

BIOGRAPHY - Tony Robert-Fleury (1837 - 1912), French painter, was born just outside Paris, and studied under his father Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury and under Delaroche and Léon Coignet. His first picture at the Salon, in 1866, was a large historical composition. of the Warsaw Massacres on April 8, 1861. In the following year his "Old Women in the Place Navone, Rome" was bought for the Luxembourg Museum, as was also the "Last Day of Corinth" in 1870. In 1880 he painted a ceiling for the Luxembourg, representing "The Glorification of French Sculpture." Tony Robert-Fleury became president of the Société des artistes français in succession to Bouguereau. He acquired a great reputation for his historical compositions and portraits; and from his atelier have issued a great number of the best-known painters of the 20th century.